Hi Ove, (please don't CC me, I'm subscribed to the list) Il giorno Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:27:55 +0100 Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> ha scritto: > David Paleino skrev: > > > Upstream's tarball provides a file, src/GNOME_GThumb.h, which is dynamically > > generated during the build. Now, it happens that this file, at the end of > > the build, is different from the provided one, and $(MAKE) distclean > > deletes it. > > Does it *need* to exist before you start the build, or is it a > completely autogenerated file? If the latter, you shouldn't have to do > anything at all. Let distclean wipe it, it'll result in a clean .diff.gz. It seems like is not needed: $ svn rm src/GNOME_GThumb.h D src/GNOME_GThumb.h $ svn status M debian/patches/series M debian/rules D src/GNOME_GThumb.h $ svn-buildpackage ... ... build command was successful; binaries are in /deb/rep/build-area/. The changes file is: /deb/rep/build-area/gthumb_2.10.8-1_i386.changes Binary packages: /deb/rep/build-area/gthumb_2.10.8-1_i386.deb /deb/rep/build-area/gthumb-data_2.10.8-1_all.deb rm -rf /deb/rep/build-area/gthumb-2.10.8 $ svn status M debian/patches/series M debian/rules D src/GNOME_GThumb.h $ but... read the following. > > This gives a tarball different from the original one, thus having unmatching > > md5sums. > > If it's a non-native package, the orig tarball doesn't change. If you're > making a new tarball after building, you're doing something wrong. > Pretty much any attempt to create the exact same tarball more than once > is doomed to fail, if only because the timestamp will be different. I'm not recreating the tarball. The first times I was making packages, my sponsors told me that the result of "debuild clean" (or fakeroot debian/rules clean) had to be the same as the original tarball unpacked + debian/. Is this wrong? This is the real question: upstream provides that file, while at the end of debian/rules clean I simply delete it, thus having different "tarballs" (in a wider sense) I hope you got my point. Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/qa_page : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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