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>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 16:06:43 +0000 (17:06 +0100)
commite508887bff2ae2957c5281616e9b3d8e52952bed
tree8a8dd71ef7c165c508bfe46d85dabb53faa72396
parentb89827be989b2283f4a1d905cfe010b624560dd4
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