Bug#851140: Acknowledgement (FTBFS? clcean target fails with autoconfig foo)

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> I think that nowadays this is even triggered by e.g. updating the
> compiler.

Ah, good. Without looking I thought it might have been a clever hack
added to the chocolate-doom autofoo, but I'm happier if it's more
widely used.

> "make distclean" should remove */Makefile.in, if I remember correctly.
> There is also "make mrproper" which remove even more stuff.

I think that suggests that a make distclean might be needed on the
"debian/rules clean" chain, if it isn't there already.

> > Let me try from a totally clean checkout.
> 
> Or maybe try "git reset --hard HEAD" first.

Clean checkout works (of course), git reset --hard does not fix this for my
existing checkout.

So in summary, I think it is possible, using only a sequence of "supported"
steps (make, make clean, etc.) to get the package tree into a state where
"debian/rules clean" will fail, and the package won't continue to build. But
I can't say for sure what those steps actually were. It's still possible I
am just being an idiot, but I think there is probably a (minor) bug somewhere
and squashing it would prevent this from happening.

I'll keep this package tree around to poke at further in the future, but I
wouldn't treat this as a high priority issue (and I don't intend to work on
it further just yet, higher priority things :))
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