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

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 13 December 2009 09:45:37 am Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Le samedi 12 décembre 2009 14:39, David Paleino a écrit :
> > 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).

How about checking in the pop command if .pc contains anything unusual when 
removing the last patch, and removing .pc/.version and .pc/ otherwise?

> > > Having to work around that with make file magic or other means is IMHO
> > > the wrong approach

Are you talking about clean/distclean like targets? Those should never remove 
.pc, or they would break quilt.

Andreas