Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: >> Sorry, I didn't realize that altering comments here would have an >> effect; I would have warned Hartmut if I had. > > Out of curiousity, why does it have an effect?
The file is imported in the build environment (chroot) of all the packages that use ‘python-build-system’. It’s an input of the derivation of those packages, so when it changes, all these derivations change. Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis: >> Sorry, I didn't realize that altering comments here would have an >> effect; I would have warned Hartmut if I had. > > I'm sorry, too. I didn't expect that changing a comment would have any > impact on building packages. Aren't the the files converted to some > canonical form prior to deciding whether they changed? No. There’s no “decision” as to whether they changed; instead, they just happen to be part of the hash of the output file name. That said, don’t be sorry gentlefolks: these things happen. ;-) Ludo’.
