[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 3.4

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:29:40PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > - I cannot run git-buildpackage without the --git-ignore-new option,
> >   because some files tracked by git are deleted by debian/clean. A
> >   similar issue is discussed in this old thread:
> > 
> >    http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org/msg22803.html
> > 
> >   ...and the conclusion is that a patch would be more appropriate for
> >   removing generated files from upstream tarball. An alternative
> >   solution would be to use "git update-index --assume-unchanged", but
> >   this is local to a working copy and does not propagate to remote
> >   repositories if my understanding is correct.
> 
> Sigh. The problem as I see it is: we must be able to regenerate the PDF
> files (if we patch just one source file for them, they will be
> regenerated anyway). But quilt has no support for binary files, so we
> cannot simply patch the files away.

Hmm, can you just simply try and delete "debian/clean"? This seems to
fix everything here for me. We can kick off a documentation rebuild by
just touching some .txi files and it seems that the packaging machinery
doesn't look at diffs of generated binary files.

	Thomas