Touching like spacemen

Rhonda, have you reported the SCons problems you’ve found to either the Debian mantainer or upstream? That’s much more likely to be an effective way of improving things than blogging about them. For what it’s worth the .scons files are a bug in the SCons core AFAICT (it needs a distclean equivalent that doesn’t appear to be there; I suspect nobody has asked for it before) and the failure to clean up other generated files will be bugs in the support for whatever tool is being used to do the build.