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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

