[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#424846: add an option for checking if after clean the source tree is the same as it was before build

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Package: sbuild
Severity: wishlist

According to your request in:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg00553.html

here is the wish list bug report: please add an option to sbuild so that
it copies the source dir after dpkg-source has been run to extract the
source package and that, after running debian/rules clean at the end of
the build, it diffs the resulting source dir and the copied one.

Note that it is currently controversial whether this would be a good
test for packages (see the whole thread linked above), but at the time
of writing it matches what the policy currently states.

Cheers.

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