[Xapian-discuss] Debian and Ubuntu packages of 1.2.0

[Jérôme Warnier]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:44:37 +0100, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's it. Damn, I love Free Software!

Thanks again.

> Cheers,
>     Olly