[debhelper-devel] Bug#765446: Bug#765446: debhelper build target status file packagename.debhelper.log is not documented

[Joey Hess]

Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> debhelper build status log file is not documented in manual pages.
> Common developer use cases involve modifying list of installed files
> and package install scripts, and for these use cases a complete re-compile
> of the packages in not necessary. Instead developers could modify
> the package status log to re-execute all steps after build target, for example.

I am not comfortable with encouraging this kind of hacking. It can
result in a package getting built while the modified source doesn't
build successfully, worse, has different contents when built straight
through from a clean build. 

So a developer might engage in this kind of hacking, test the resulting
binary package and see it's good, and then fire off a dpkg-buildpackage
and not test that clean build, and upload a broken package.

-- 
see shy jo
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