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Re: Documentation generated by doxygen and Debian Policy



Le Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:57:59PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit :
> 
> I believe it is generally accepted that every file that can be
> (re)generated during the build process should be, for various reasons.

Hi all,

I think that there is a consensus that generated files must be regenerable, and
that it is a bug if their build system is broken.  The best way to ensure this
is to regenerate them at build time, however it is not a requirement.  In
particular, I do not see advantages in distributing rebuilds that would for
instance only update time stamps.  It is increasing debdiffs and heating the
planet for no benefit.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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