Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pkg-create-dbgsym
It would be helpful if pkg-create-dbgsym wrapped dh_clean in addition to
dh_strip to remove whatever package cruft it just created.
Although pkg-create-dbgsym is typically installed inside transient
sbuild chroots, that's not forced in any way. I, for one, find it useful
to get debug packages even when I'm building something as plebian as
debuild or dpkg-buildpackage - you never know when you'll need them.
But having pkg-create-dbgsym installed outside of a chroot can wreck
minor havoc with the clean target - since there's no record of the
packages which pkg-create-dbgsym created, dh_clean doesn't know to clean
them up automatically. dpkg-source will try to roll them into
.debian.tar.gz or .diff.gz, and fail, because it won't include binary
files in either. And I've seen it cause some...much more interesting
problems as well.
Note that using the debian/clean file won't work, because that can only
list files, not directories. I could conceivably override the clean
target, but this seems like something which pkg-create-dbgsym should be
handling itself.
** Affects: pkg-create-dbgsym (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704285
Title:
New packages confuse dh_clean
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