[debhelper-devel] Bug#511048: directory removal suggestion

[Barak A. Pearlmutter]

How about using the same convention as .gitignore, so to include a
directory foo put a line foo/ in debian/clean.  The trailing slash
would tell dh_clean that this is a directory please remove it anyway.
This would avoid making debian/cleandirs which seems like too much
clutter, and the syntax is pretty easy to remember and read.

Cheers,

--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak at pearlmutter.net>
 Dept Comp Sci & Hamilton Inst, Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://barak.pearlmutter.net