Re: Bug#424218: texinfo: FTBFS if built twice in a row

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> - upstream ships po/*.gmo
> - debian patches patch the .po files to fix some translations
> - debian rules touches po/texinfo.pot
> - make updates the .gmo files and the rest
>
> Now at a second build time we have changes in the binary .gmo files
> which cannot be represented.
>
> Now my question: I could in principle hack around this by:
> - saving all the .gmo files in the configure state
> - restoring them in the clean step
>
> But this is ugly.
>
> Is there any other suggested way to do this?

Does dpkg accept complete removal of binary files?  Would it be possible
to just remove the *.gmo files during clean?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)