Hi, Am Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 01:42:53PM +0100 schrieb Julian Gilbey: > 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?
I agree that having this a no-brainer and getting all this *.egg-info caused bugs solved by a simple dh-python update without changing packaging code would be extremely convenient. I could imagine creating a backup of the affected *.egg-info files if existent and copy these back in clean target could solve this. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
