Bug#559195: Cannot build the source package in clean chroot, unable to pdebbuild the package.

[Daniel Burrows]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:15:29PM +0100, "Artur R. Czechowski" <arturcz at hell.pl> was heard to say:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:17:27PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >   Debian policy section 7.7 clearly states that Build-Depends must be
> > satisfied before "clean" is invoked.
> [cut]
> > It might be enough to remove that line and instead write
> > 
> > 	[ ! -f doc/Makefile ] || $(MAKE) -C doc distclean
> > 
> >   after we invoke $(MAKE) distclean.  I suspect it would also be a good
> > idea to explicitly clean in src/gtk, since that can also be disabled.
> Well, under mentioned circumstances it is obviously my fault, because
> I am using tools in a not intended way. Of course, it would be nice
> to have a possibility of download this or that package and recompile it
> without cluttering the filesystem with normaly unneeded development
> packages. I think you can just close the bug. Or, if you are able
> to fulfill my wish - toggle it to wishlist.

  Just FYI, I did check some changes into the Debian packaging which
should allow "clean" to run with only debhelper.

  Daniel