DH_OCTAVE_CLEAN(1)

💅 DH_OCTAVE_CLEAN 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the dh-octave corner of the manual, where we take out the trash 🗑️✨. This is DH_OCTAVE_CLEAN(1) and she is here to make your Octave add-on package build spotless.

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✨ NAME ✨

dh_octave_clean — clean files from Octave add-on package build 🧼🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dh_octave_clean [debhelper options]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like, dh_octave_clean cleans up all the files that got generated while building an Octave add-on package. She's the friend who comes over after the party and actually does the dishes, no cap. 🫶

Specifically? She cleans the files global-list and local-list that got created automatically. Iconic. She does not need you to make them, she already knows.

She also cleans any inst/*-api-v*, src/*.o, src/*.oct and src/*-tst files left over by the build process. Yes, all of them. The way she just sweeps through those leftover files? Obsessed. 🔥

And finally, she runs both make clean and make distclean in both the top-level directory and the src directory, if it exists, so the cleaning goes even deeper. Double cleaning, double slay. 💅✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• debhelper(7)
• dh(1)
• dh_octave_substvar(1)
• dh_octave_check(1)
• dh_octave_version(1)
• dh_octave_changelogs(1)
• dh_octave_examples(1)

ngl, this program is meant to be used together with debhelper for Debian packages derived from Octave add-on packages. She is part of the Debhelper octave build system, and she gets enabled by the --buildsystem option to dh_auto_clean (or globally, if you're feeling global 💁).

⚠️ But listen — she is NOT enabled by the dh sequence provided by the same package. So don't come for her when she doesn't show up, she never said she would. 💀

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> — the mastermind, the moment, the main character 🎀

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and that's the whole vibe bestie, this page is from version 1.16.2, dated 2026-07-18 🍓✨ go forth and clean fr fr 💖🌈