I'm sure I'm not the only one who received a whole bunch of bugs entitled "Fails to build source after successful build" last weekend. There was one theme common to most of them: the presence of a *.egg-info directory which was not cleaned by debian/rules clean.
I know the bug report said that this policy is currently under discussion, but I did get thinking about it. I imagine that this particular directory should be the responsibility of dh-python to clean up, but it may not be sensible to always delete *.egg-info directories, as they may be present in the orig.tar.gz file. One could handle it by manually adding this directory to debian/clean in each package, but perhaps this should be the default behaviour of dh-python? Any thoughts? Best wishes, Julian
