Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch
Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> On 1/16/25 01:43, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> For a while we just built the man pages but if any of the docbook tools
>> changed between one arch build and another, we'd end up with m-a
>> uninstallable packages.
> Can this be fixed by removing the "Generator:" comment in the generated
> manpage, and possibly clamping the included date to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?
There are various things one can do to try to make the output of a man
page generator like that more consistent, but they don't fix the problem,
just reduce its frequency, unless Debian sets up to do a fully
reproducible build with pinned versions of everything (which I don't think
we want to do).
Otherwise, the problem is that the documentation generation tools may have
changed versions, and therefore changed output in a way that's not really
avoidable, between the time the source package was uploaded and built and
the time a binNMU was scheduled for one of the architectures.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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