Packaging with CDBS: Unknown sequence cleanbuilddir

Question

I'm trying to create an Ubuntu package for testing, and stick to the rules given at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete.

As this is CMake build and I need to adapt the arguments to cmake, I'm using

include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/cmake.mk

in debian/rules. Unfortunately, when I then call debuild I get the error message

$ debuild
[...]
dh cleanbuilddir
dh: Unknown sequence cleanbuilddir (choose from: binary binary-arch binary-indep build build-arch build-indep clean install install-arch install-indep)
make: *** [cleanbuilddir] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1350:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

Where is cleanbuilddir defined, or: Why does it fail here?

Answer 1

The mistake was, while the CDBS header /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/cmake.mk was included, the default target

%:
   dh $@

was still present in the file. Commenting out the later makes debuild run fine.