Bug#728198: devscripts: debuild (& others) must reject debian/rules actions on unpatched source trees

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:14:16PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.13.4
> Severity: important
> 
> It does not make sense to build or clean an unpatched source tree, since the
> applied patches are considered strictly *part of the source package*. However,
> `debuild build/clean`, and probably many other tools, still allows this to
> happen without any warning.

I think I understand Ximin issue:

debclean can fail in a source tree when using the source format "3.0 quilt",
if 'debian/rules clean' requires the patches to be applied to work, for example
an upstream Makefile is fixed,
because debclean does not make sure the patches are applied.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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