howto build firefox package for development?

[Justin Pryzby]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:36:16AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> While working on security issues for firefox 1.5.0.3 I ran into troubles to 
> build firefox a second time without rebuilding source tree from diff
> and orig. 
That's a policy violation,

> In fact building the diff.gz after running clean fails because there
> are links which are not representable in diff.gz.
And that's really bad even if it wasn't.

> What's the right way to build and rebuild firefox from sid?
The links will have to get cleaned or reset to their original target.
Ian had created a patch which allows the source tree to be completely
pristine after build+clean, I don't know if this is a new problem or
old.

Justin