On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 17:26 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Earlier today I uploaded version 4.1.1-1~exp1, with some of the changes
> here. I built it once on ext4 and then on xfs, hoping to change
> directory ordering.
>
> A summary of the debbindiff:
>
> 1. timestamps are different on all files in control.tar.gz
> 2. timestamps are different on many files in data.tar.{gz,xz}
> 3. anchor IDs are different in generated HTML docs
> 4. 'Author' and 'Manual' fields in the manual page header and footer differ
> where the manual page is generated from headers referenced by multiple
> DocBook files
>
> I believe items 1 and 2 are covered by #759886.
>
> I investigated item 3 further and have now fixed it in svn.
>
> Item 4 could be fixed by your generate-manpage-in-deterministic
> -order.patch but I would like to find a cleaner solution to it.
I've fixed item 4 in svn by annotating and filtering out duplicates
from the DocBook files.
I also found and fixed an instance of using the current time (for the
date in manual pages).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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