Bug#840425: mkosi: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (debian/mkosi.1: No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:30:04AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> > If your intention is that "debian/rules build" builds everything from
> > scratch again if you do it a second time, you can't even do that
> > with dh because of dh's own stamping system.
> >
> > For example, try "debian/rules build" on the hello package, then try
> > "debian/rules build" again, you will see that it does not do anything
> > the second time.
> 
> Debhelper compat level 10 introduced a new stamping system that is
> reasonable now. Because mkosi uses level 10, all I need to do is `rm
> debian/debhelper-build-stamp`. If I don't do the .PHONY thing, the
> only thing that will work is deleting the build dir.

Sorry, I still don't get it.

"all you need to do" for what?

If you want the build to happen again, you should "debian/rules clean" first,
with or without debhelper.

Am I missing anything?