On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, at 06:25 PM, Dhole wrote:
> - Make debhelper export POD_MAN_DATE
An abstraction layer violation, surely? Smells really bad to me and sets
a bad precedent for specific-fixes needing to be in a general tool. This
has maintenance issues, as well as being surprising to packagers.
On 09/10/2015 06:10 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> This is a toolchain issue that potentially affects hundreds of packages
> and should IMO be fixed centrally, at least for those packages that use
> these debhelper short form dh rules.
>
After thinking about it, I agree too; a toolchain fix would be more
> This is a toolchain issue that potentially affects hundreds of packages
> and should IMO be fixed centrally, at least for those packages that use
> these debhelper short form dh rules.
Really agree with this - we will already have quite a bit of unnecessary
clutter in the archive once we fix a b
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 03:56:03PM +0200, Dhole wrote:
> While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
> that libapache-dbi-perl could not be built reproducibly.
>
> The attached patch sets the embedded date in the man pages generated by
> podman to the latest debian/chan
