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>
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 22:38:30 +0000 (22:38 +0000)
commit984a64728e41da4c8a04ce8e6c9ba903409be64c
tree9164cb77f3e3636e608aaa80e35f8a1ebb83818f
parent819b1deab2c3ca2e78067609ab3acbb8e8f6a4bf
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