NAME

declean —

clean up after a Debian package build

SYNOPSIS

declean

DESCRIPTION

The declean utility attempts to clean up the files generated by the build of a Debian source package. It is intended to be used after a “debuild clean” or equivalent command, and removes the *.deb, *.changes, etc. files from the parent directory. Actually, declean removes all files with names containing an underscore (‘*_*’), and then restores the original source archives by copying everything from the parent directory's dist/ subdirectory back into the parent directory.

This is all a bit complicated; see below for a simple example :)

RETURN VALUES

The declean utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

If the parent directory does not contain a dist/ subdirectory, declean will not remove any files but display an error message instead to prevent its being invoked from the wrong directory or destroying a package's source archive.