DH_AUTORECONF_CLEAN(1)

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💖 DH_AUTORECONF_CLEAN 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the dh-autoreconf girlies' corner of section 1 of the manual pages 🎀 this one is short and sweet and it's giving "cleanup crew" energy, so let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_autoreconf_clean — no cap, its whole job is cleaning up every single change that dh_autoreconf made 🧹💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dh_autoreconf_clean [debhelper options]

like literally that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: dh_autoreconf_clean removes all the files that got created or changed while the autoreconf call was running — the one that was executed by dh_autoreconf(1) 👑 think of it as the undo button for that whole situation.

and that's not all, because it also reverts any ltmain.sh patch that dh_autoreconf applied 🔥 so if dh_autoreconf touched ltmain.sh, this is the one that puts it back the way it was. iconic behavior honestly.

ngl it's a two-for-one deal: files reverted, ltmain.sh patch un-applied. she does both 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk 📚💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> — thank you for your service bestie, we are obsessed 💐

and that's a wrap on this one, angel ✨ this page is from dh-autoreconf v23, dated 2026-09-07, and it lives in section 1 of the manual 💜 go forth and clean up your build dir, you absolute main character 🌟🧚‍♀️

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