On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 19:16 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > So, after reading your comment above, I still bet for "trying to > build > from git" as the root cause of this.
No it wasn't from git... but I guess there's somewhere a check which looks whether any of the files used to build the manpages has a newer mtime than that. Sorry for not checking that more elaborately before filing a bug. > (In such case I would not consider it as a bug, because in general we > want to have as few build-depends as possible, and we already have > gbp > for those who want to build from git). No strong opinions... I mean IMO there are pros and cons. Obviously as you said, keeping the build-dep list small is a pro. OTOH, the XZ backdoor taught us to build as much from pristine files as possible (IIRC the start of the was in some m4 script that was taken from the tarball whereas it could have also been taken from some pristine sources). But I think it's at least bad, that make tries to execute "no". Cheers, Chris.
