[build-path-prefix-map-spec] 03/03: Clarify relative paths, remove old point that was more relevant for timestamps
Ximin Luo
infinity0 at debian.org
Tue Mar 14 19:29:53 UTC 2017
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Author: Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>
Date: Tue Mar 14 20:20:08 2017 +0100
Clarify relative paths, remove old point that was more relevant for timestamps
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spec.in.rst | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/spec.in.rst b/spec.in.rst
index 1658b93..8822c6c 100644
--- a/spec.in.rst
+++ b/spec.in.rst
@@ -22,10 +22,9 @@ into generated files. At the time of writing, this affects an estimated 15-20%
of 25000 Debian packages being unreproducible when the build path is varied.
These paths do not exist at runtime, nor do they exist in the source code. An
-improvement is to use relative paths; if the source is then modified, the
-binaries will change by design. These paths can also be easily used as runtime
-paths, for example to access source-code packages that are installed into
-standard paths, for IDEs and debuggers.
+improvement is to use relative paths that depend only on the source layout.
+These paths can also be easily used as runtime paths, for example to access
+source-code packages installed into standard paths, for IDEs and debuggers.
This requires knowledge of where the top-level source directories are, and
where (if any) the top-level out-of-tree-build directories are. However, some
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