Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 04:02:48PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
>...
> Most of our packages use `make' or something like it. make relies on
> timestamps to decide what to rebuild. It seems that sometimes our
> source packages contain combinations of timestamps (and perhaps stamp
> files) which, in practice, exempt certain parts of the build from
> taking place (if one just does "apt-get source" and then
> "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b").
>...
> What do people think ?
>...
Debian uses upstream tarballs, upstream tarballs often contain files
generated based on the contents of the upstream VCS.
The "hello" package still builds after you autoreconf the package,
but the program no longer knows what version it is (automake tries to
run build-aux/git-version-gen which is not in the source tarball).
"you autoreconf the package" means that you actually call "autoreconf".
"touch configure.ac" breaks the build of the hello package due to
missing aclocal-1.14
Be prepared to see a lot of such issues when you touch random files.
If you want this to work properly, Debian has to move from using the
generated release tarballs to the actual source in the upstream VCS.
> Ian.
cu
Adrian
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