Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2017-03-18 08:53:21) > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 08:22:36AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > So just as with sbuild I don't see why anybody would want to *only* build > > the > > source package inside a chroot. Since the source package is the *input* to > > the > > whole operation, you would just get back what you already put in. > The only gain would be in a situation where you can't run the clean target > outside of the chroot, due to missing dependencies, so `dpkg-source -b .` > will produce an "unclean" source. After moving it inside a throw-away chroot > with the build-deps installed you can call the clean rules, and produce the > source again, which will be "cleaner" than the one produced outside. > Personally I'd call this case quite borderline and unusual, especially in > this world of git where the working directory is easily cleaned by a `git > clean -fdx` et al.
how would the unpacked source directory become unclean if I'm using pbuilder or sbuild to build my packages? If I'm not mistaken that would only happen if I ever call some targets from debian/rules outside the chroot and that again requires the build dependencies to be installed at which point you can also run the clean target. cheers, josch
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