Bug#297796: emacs21: FTBFS: timestamp skew issues.

[Rob Browning]

J=E9r=F4me Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> writes:

>> I'm still not comfortable presuming that for projects we don't
>> control, especially when things like libtool (and gettext?) do create
>> subdirs under some conditions.  Anyway, if it's easy to avoid the
>> possibility of this being a problem, I don't see why we shouldn't.
>
> I depends how much it cost, but let's see.

OK, I'm messing with it and will propose something concrete soon.

>> You probably already know this, but that's the recommended practice
>> for pacakges AFAIK: /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
>
> Err, I swear that despite what's written in the doc, many people
> told me that it was a bad practice.

Well, if so, let me know.  I was just going by that doc.

> Yes. Could you explain what do you in mind exactly and how you want to
> do it exactly?
>
> If you mean what you proposed
>
>>   define update_autofiles_diff_if_needed
>>     md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/tmp-dpatch.md5
>>     if ! cmp debian/dpatch.md5 debian/tmp-dpatch.md5; \
>>     then \
>>       $(update_debian_autofiles_diff); \
>>       md5sum debian/*.dpatch > debian/dpatch.md5; \
>>     fi
>>   endef
>
> you seem to condition the regeneration of autodiffs by any dpatch
> being modified, don't you?

Yes, but at the moment, my plan is to (a) try integrating with dpatch
rather than doing it "by hand", and (b) not regenerate the
autofiles.dpatch automatically at all, but rather just use something
like the above to notice that things might be broken and tell us to
regenerate.

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Rob Browning
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