Hi. Thanks for all the explanations. I just re-read this whole sequence of emails, and I'm mostly clear on this now.
First off, I think the last email confused things a little bit. I run sbuild on modified source, as you expect. The sequence in the previous email was just a simple example of something that surprisingly to me doesn't work in sbuild. All packages I ever work on live in git. So the "clean" state is defined as the result of "git clean -fdx && git reset --hard". I know that sbuild can't assume git So my workflow is usually something like - git clean -fdx && git reset --hard - sbuild If I forgot the clean step above, dpkg usually yells at me. That feels like enough, without needing a "dh clean" also. If there's no way to make this always work in all cases, can we make the error message better somehow? How about "dh clean" failed. Note: this runs outside the chroot, so the required Build-Depends may not be installed Or something like that. This bit of info would have saved me some time: I spent time looking around before filing this report. Is that reasonable? Can we do even better? Thanks much
