Bug#638228: cyrus-imapd: Package rebuild is not possible as the source tree is not returned to initial stage

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Dmitry,

thanks for the bugreport. This is always a problem when upstream includes
autogenerated files which are cleaned as part of 'make clean' into the tarball.

I'll try talking to them. Because I am not really in favor of doing all sort of
backup/restore in the maintainer scripts.

However if you have a working patch I would include it :). Meanwhile I would
recommend you to develop using the git repository and git-buildpackage.
It makes such things much easier.

O.
P.S.: I'll definitely agree with you that this is a bug, but it's not
a priority for
me and unfortunately I really need to spend time on more important bugs
(when I have a time for Debian at all).

2011/8/17 Dmitry Katsubo <dma_k at mail.ru>:
> Package: cyrus-imapd-2.4
> Version: 2.4.9
> Severity: minor
>
> It is clear that this error is not reproducible on build server, as it
> always starts a build in a clean environment. However for development
> reasons it is handy when the "clean" rule of the build cycle reverts all
> changes back to original stage, so that e.g. dpkg-source does not
> complain. However that was not the case for cyrus-imapd-2.2, and the
> same for cyrus-imapd-2.4.
>
> Expected: It is possible to rebuild a project again e.g. via
> dpkg-buildpackage.
> Actual: When dpkg-buildpackage is start again, it fails.
>
> See the attached console log.
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Dmitry
>
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