#496630 please provide a quilt clean command

Package:
quilt
Source:
quilt
Submitter:
Gerfried Fuchs
Date:
2024-02-02 12:03:21 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#496630#5
Date:
2008-08-26 09:36:21 UTC
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To:
        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. :)
Rhonda
#496630#10
Date:
2009-12-12 13:39:21 UTC
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To:
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

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.
#496630#15
Date:
2009-12-13 08:45:37 UTC
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Hi David,

Le samedi 12 décembre 2009 14:39, David Paleino a écrit :

This is correct.

Mostly yes. With the following things to consider:

* I wouldn't use "pop -f" by default, as it might discard unrefreshed
  changes. You can have "quilt clean -f" pass it.
* You may want to consider "pop -q", so that "quilt clean" isn't too
  verbose.
* Do we want "quilt clean" to work from any subdirectory, as most
  quilt commands do, or should it only work in the root directory?
  I'd vote for "only in the root directory" but others may disagree.

One of the reasons why I don't like the idea of having configuration
files in ".pc"...
#496630#20
Date:
2009-12-13 09:42:54 UTC
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How about checking in the pop command if .pc contains anything unusual when
removing the last patch, and removing .pc/.version and .pc/ otherwise?

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

Andreas
#496630#27
Date:
2014-11-19 08:31:28 UTC
From:
To:
user debian-qa@lists.debian.org
usertag 496630 + gift
usertag 754827 + gift
usertag 710678 + gift
thanks

Hello,

I think that these bugs could serve as an entry point in the
corresponding packages, and I'm willing to sherperd any volunter
interested in working on these issues.

Thanks for considering,
Mt.
#496630#34
Date:
2024-02-02 06:41:20 UTC
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To:
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