"debain/rules clean" does not clean adequately
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unity-scope-home (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is a problem in the unity-scope-home source package, version 6.8.2+14.
According to Ubuntu policy, the "clean" rule in debian/rules "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." That target in unity-scope-home does not do this:
root@chickatric
root@chickatric
root@chickatric
root@chickatric
root@chickatric
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
> unity-scope-
It looks like some of the files generating while building are not correctly removed while cleaning. This is a problem if (as I do) you want to convert the package to use the "3.0 (quilt)" source format.
The attached patch seemed to fix the problem for me, but I now worry about the *.dump files above, which it doesn't touch.
| Ben Harris (bjh21) wrote | #1 |
| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: patch |
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