Re: Cleanup in .orig.tar.gz or debian/rules?

[Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>]

Hi Onkar,

Onkar Shinde wrote:
> What is wrong with cleaning up prebuilt jar files in clean target in
> debian/rules? If you use this approach you don't have to repack the
> upstream tarball every time there is a new version.
> Is there any policy against this approach? If yes, can you please
> point me to it?
I'm not sure there is any *explicit* policy against this, but the 
definition of the clean target is that it brings the build environment 
in the same state as it was before the build. Well, before the build, 
the jars were there... So, basically, you land in a confusing (because 
not done in any other package) and undefined state, not to think about 
problems you might get with diffs on binary files.
I think it would be a no-go for any mentoring DD (something I am not).

Hope this helps,
Eric

> Onkar