avoid regenerating defsincdate (use shipped file)
authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:34:42 +0000 (12:34 -0400)
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:11:59 +0000 (20:11 +0100)
commitc8a47cd294c4d0fee326bf75662d6ebe364f3bb0
tree4b7bc196187ccda034c1dc295b0db6722e39bd49
parent208936e244236936810413c317a9ebda6383ce20
avoid regenerating defsincdate (use shipped file)

upstream ships doc/defsincdate in its tarballs.  but doc/Makefile.am
tries to rewrite doc/defsincdate if it notices that any of the files
have been modified more recently, and it does so assuming that we're
running from a git repo.

However, we'd rather ship the documents cleanly without regenerating
defsincdate -- we don't have a git repo available (debian builds from
upstream tarballs) and any changes to the texinfo files (e.g. from
debian/patches/) might result in different dates on the files than we
expect after they're applied by dpkg or quilt or whatever, which makes
the datestamp unreproducible.

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian-packaging
Gbp-Pq: Name avoid-regenerating-defsincdate-use-shipped-file.patch
doc/Makefile.am