Bug#628481: debclean: please respect the option 'unapply-patches' in debian/source/local-options

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Naturally, I've forwarded that change to debian and got the following
> response. If someone objects to the change I've implemented, please tell
> so me and I'll revert it. Otherwise, I'll follow what change James will
> implement in debian and replace my implementation with his in ubuntu.

I agree with James, it's not the role of devscripts to implement this
option. dpkg-source --after-build already does it and in fact it does
more than just quilt pop -a.

You might want to add a call to "dpkg-source --after-build foo" in
debclean on the basis that you might want to clean up trees with failed
builds... but that's all.

1.0 packages using quilt already unapply patches in the clean target.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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