Hi,

This package fails to build a source package after a successful build
(dpkg-buildpackage ; dpkg-buildpackage -S).

This is probably a clear violation of Debian Policy section 4.9 (clean target),
but this is filed as severity:minor for now, because a discussion on
debian-devel showed that we might want to revisit the requirement of a working
'clean' target.

More information about this class of issues, included common problems and
solutions, is available at
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS/SourceAfterBuild

Relevant part of the build log:
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2023/08/13/rheolef_7.2-3_unstable.log

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

Hello Pierre.

(I'm writing you as upstream as I see you are hosting the homepage).

I've noticed that (in the current version) there are no .deps directories
around after a successful build, and that's why the above fails.

(Here, variable f takes the single value ".deps/*" because there is no
globbing expansion).

To fix it, I've patched the different Makefile.am files in this way
in a team upload:

--- a/config/Makefile.am
+++ b/config/Makefile.am
@@ -167,10 +167,6 @@

 clean-local:
        rm -rf cxx_repository
-       for f in $(DEPDIR)/*; do                \
-           rm -f $$f;                  \
-           touch $$f;                          \
-       done

So, the Debian package is fixed, but you might want to check if the
upstream code still does that.

Thanks.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rheolef, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1045902@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> (supplier of updated rheolef package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:15:00 +0100
Source: rheolef
Architecture: source
Version: 7.2-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Closes: 1045902 1049482
Changes:
 rheolef (7.2-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Fix clean target. Closes: #1045902, #1049482.
   * Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no" (default).
   * Drop "Priority: optional" (default).
   * Update standards-version.
   * Switch from .gitlab-ci.yml to salsa-ci.yml.
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