debian/rules binary only succeeds on second run

Here, at least, the first run of say fakeroot debian/rules binary fails on the dependency check, i.e. the libexample-clojure package is missing the libclojure-java dependency (maven:Depends was empty). A second run succeeds. After that, runs will work, unless you remove example-clojure/.debianVersion (which we don't clean, but should).

It looks like this may be some issue with the buildsystem's mh_resolve_dependencies invocation, and in some testing here, I noticed that for the first failing build it appears to mangle the pom to change the clojure dependency version from the correct 1.x to debian, to delete the libexample-clojure.poms file, and to write a substvars with no clojure dep. I also noticed some logic around .debianVersion in /usr/bin/mh_resolve_dependencies, but have not delved.