Re: sponsor to upload ocamldsort
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:10:04PM +0200, Dimitri Ara wrote:
> Le mercredi 29 août 2007, Ralf Treinen a écrit :
> > I guess we can now wait for the transition to 3.10 which, I hope,
> > is immminent.
>
> Ok.
>
> > However, I was wondering about the line in debian/rules:
> >
> > touch configure.in && sleep 1 && touch configure
> >
> > Why is his necessary?
>
> I didn't remember so I asked google. That was suggested by
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271284 but without the
> sleep. I'm not sure to remember why I've added it. I think my sponsor asked
> for it to be sure that the timestamp problem would be fixed. Since
> /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz suggests the solution
> without the sleep, I guess I can safely remove it.
Maybe this applied in the past (and even then I do not see why you
would need the sleep instruction) but it doesn't apply now
since you do not, contrary to what the bug report clains, patch
configure or configure.in:
% zcat ocamldsort_0.14.4-1.diff.gz | grep "^+++"
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/.depend
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/dirs
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/docs
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/control
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/rules
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/svn-deblayout
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/changelog
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/compat
+++ ocamldsort-0.14.4/debian/copyright
-Ralf.
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