This one time, at band camp, Kurt Roeckx said: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:11:22PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > > during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number > > of packages were not buildable two times (eg. "unrepresentable changes > > to source"). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or > > cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying as one needs to either > > manual interact or run dpkg-source -x again. > > > > I therefore propose a policy change for etch+1, that all packages need > > to have a proper working clean target, so a directly rebuild of the > > package is possible without manual interaction. > > And by "need" you mean MUST? In the subject you also use the word must. > > I would like to see such a change.
clean
This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may
have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created
in the parent directory by a run of a binary target.
We already have this rule, and it is a must directive already.
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