[Xapian-discuss] Debian and Ubuntu packages of 1.2.0

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:11:14AM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 04:02 +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > Comparing the output from my build with yours, yours doesn't run the
> > configure target in debian/rules, which suggests to me that you already
> > had the stamp file for it present - i.e. you didn't start from a clean
> > source tree.
> 
> That was it. After so many tries, I forgot to restart from scratch.
> Though a dist-clean target would probably be useful.
> I think it is one of Debian's goal now to have packages whose source
> rebuild once cleaned, without having to unpack the original sources
> again.

I just suggested unpacking to maximise the repeatability.

You should be able to use "debuild clean", but I actually it's buggy and
fails to remove debian/*-stamp.  I've fixed that in SVN - thanks for
making me notice.

Cheers,
    Olly