On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Sean Finney wrote: > > > If you do it with the patch system (quilt or even plain dpkg), > > > before building the package source, you cannot ensure that files are > > > patched in the right order. > > > > What do you mean "in the right order" ? > > autofoo stuff examines timestamps on various files, so it's possible > that if configure gets patched before configure.ac, and > AM_MAINTAINER_MODE is set to a specific value, that ./configure ends up > wanting to regenerate ./configure at build time. double fail.
dpkg-source resets the timestamp of patched files so that they all have the same timestamp. This is precisely to avoid this. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110317075628.gb7...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
