Re: [rfc] Policy: -dev packages should touch all .h in postinst
Previously Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Why is that? Wouldn't you want your .dep/*'s to get rebuilt in case
> something is changed in the new *.h's from the -dev package?
> Couldn't it cause trouble if something changed?
It's a trade-off. I find the shipping date more useful info. Technically
the way make handles dependencies is wrong: it should compare timestamps
of files to their previous value instead of to the currently build
object.
Wichert.
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