[Pkg-mono-devel] Working around "unrepresentable changes to source"

[Jo Shields]

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 11:39 +0000, Weeble wrote:
> If I do "apt-get source mono", apply some patches to the source tree
> and then run dpkg-buildpackage, I can build a new version of the mono
> package. But if I then try to apply another patch and repeat
> dpkg-buildpackage, I get the error "dpkg-source: unrepresentable
> changes to source". I understand this is because the mono build
> process makes changes to the source tree during the build, is that
> right? What I'd like to know is if there's any way to work around this
> and do a fresh build without discarding the entire source tree,
> running apt-get source mono and then applying the patches I need
> again?

debian/rules clean *should* do that. if it isn't, it's a bug.