Package: debhelper Severity: wishlist Add-ons cannot be made conditional if they need to alter the clean sequence. An example is maven-repo-helper, which provides a mh_clean tool which basically removes files and directories created by other maven-repo-helper tools. This in turn prevents us from moving maven-repo-helper to Build-Depends-Indep (and thus break/reduce build-dependency circles).
I think this calls of a generalization of mh_clean and implement that in dh_clean (or at least debhelper's own clean sequence). Side note: It is a non-goal to remove the need for jh_clean that calls other tools (unless they happen to be replaceable by "pre-registering files to be deleted) ~Niels
