Package: dpkg-dev
In an ideal world source packages would always contain source code but
sometimes source packages (especially private ones) need to contain
binaries.
When attempting to build such a package using the 3.0 native format the
source package build and binary package builds will succeed, but the
"source" package won't actually contain the binaries that were in the
source tree and so when someone comes to unpack said source package
again to make a change they will find it is incomple.
IMO silently ignoring such files is a crazy default, either the files
should be included or source package build should scream and die (thus
prompting the packager that they need to either fix thier clean target
or override something).
I can see some merit in silently ignoring VCS files and the like (though
i'm far from convinced it's a good idea) but silently ignoring
binaries/libraries is just crazy.
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