udev build after source -sa build fails due to missing configure target

[Wookey]

If you do a source-with-tarball udev build then all subsequent builds will fail because the configure file has been removed and there is no configure: target to remake it

apt-get source udev
cd udev-175
dpkg-buildpackage -S -sa
dpkg-buildpackage -B

results in
 debian/rules build
make: *** No rule to make target `configure', needed by `build-deb/config.status'. Stop.

The source is shipped with a configure file but there is no configure: target, only a
# Configure the package
debian/autoreconf.after:
        dh_autoreconf

Interestingly, if you do a dpkg-builpackage -S before the -B then it's fine. Something about -sa makes it remove the various autogenerated files.

Adding this seems to fix it:
configure: debian/autoreconf.after

but maybe that always runs dh_autoreconf and it didn't before? I don;t fully grok how this stuff interacts.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lucas Magasweran (lucasrangit)]

Patch fixed the issue for me. Rebuilds work again. Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Note, not relevant any more for 13.10 and later as udev is built from systemd there.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".