distclean, Re: proper way to link mplayer to shared ffmpeg , was Re: Bug#520113

[A Mennucc]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:21:55PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious about your packaging, but if
> you take a fresh tarball, the distclean is totally pointless...

usually a mantainer would unpack a fresh tarball, fiddle/hack into it
to solve bugs (sometimes repeatdly compiling);
then 'debuild' the package. In that case, step
 (1)=distclean
is important

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