Bug#915524: Acknowledgement (RFS: filemanager-actions/3.4-1 [ITP])

[Carlos Maddela <e7appew@gmail.com>]

On 9/2/19 1:14 am, Jeremy Bicha wrote:

> 4. I think your debian/source/options is unnecessary.
> 
> 5. I don't think your backup.tar stuff is necessary at all. I
> recommend removing all of it.

Hi,

I have removed these two things in the changes I have pushed, but I
wasn't able to preserve idempotent builds. For other projects I've
worked on, it's possible to just delete the modified files and achieve
idempotent builds, but since this project also tries to patch the files
that get deleted, it doesn't work.

Anyway, I couldn't find in the Debian Policy anything about idempotent
builds, just idempotent maintainer scripts. I've only been told about
idempotent builds, I think, by other developers and I've also come
across some bug reports about it. I've also found the --git-export-dir
option to gbp-buildpackage, which allows you to not worry about modified
files.

Cheers,

Carlos