On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:21:52 -0800 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes: > > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 11:41:58 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > >> That is a bug and ought to be fixed in its own right. Then, the > >> discussion of how much we should rely on it or not is a different one, > >> but it's good to separate the concerns. > > > As mentioned on the summary, this is not specific to gzip (even if gzip > > could pickup development in the future), it is a general problem that > > extends to any other compressors and generated files too, for example > > docs (POD, html, etc), etc. > > Yeah, generated documentation potentially also varies in annoying ways. > Man pages generated from POD, for example, will be different if the > version of Pod::Man or Pod::Simple used to generate them is different, > which could easily happen across a point release of Perl, and hence across > a binNMU. I suspect Doxygen is even more fragile (although somewhat less > likely to be included directly in a -dev package rather than a separate > -docs package because it's larger). gtk-doc-tools is also susceptible - it seems to change the id="" contents on each build, much as doxygen does. Same version, same package, different HTML with multiple changes per file, usually one change per function described. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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