[Quilt-dev] [RFC] provide a quilt clean command

[David Paleino]

Hello people,
while looking at bugs filed in Debian, I stumbled across "please provide a 
quilt clean command":

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496630

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:36:21, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>         Hi!
> 
>  It would be more convenient if quilt would be able to clean up after
> itself. That is, removing the .pc directory again (and possibly other
> autogenerated/cached files). Having to work around that with make file
> magic or other means is IMHO the wrong approach and errorsome: If the
> autogenerated files change or others are produced, the build system
> should know, but external magic doesn't.
> 
>  So ... please give us a proper clean command. :)

I might be missing something, but doesn't quilt only touch things inside .pc/? 
Thus, the "magic" involved in cleaning up just boils down to

  quilt pop -f -a ; rm -rf .pc/ [1]

Is that right?

Kindly,
David

[1] given a .pc/.quiltrc does not exist, in which case that one should 
    probably be preserved, and I agree a "quilt clean" might be handy here.

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