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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: deb-pkg target invokes clean
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:10:34 +0100
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To: Juraj <juraj.orsulic@fer.hr>
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On 2017-02-12 22:11 +0100, Juraj wrote:

> I noticed that the deb-pkg target in scripts/package/Makefile invokes
> make clean. Is this really necessary?

Yes, because (since Linux 4.3) "make deb-pkg" also generates a source
tarball, and you don't want spurious object files in that tarball.

> I disabled it so I could rebuild
> .deb packages faster after making small changes to the kernel source.

There's the bindeb-pkg target for that already. :-)

Cheers,
       Sven