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>
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:17:16 +0000 (01:17 +0000)
commitc8101de7f2bd375aaa770528074da71d8431d675
tree66c9624f9c4ac87e7d36fcc52b7dd328b17c36bf
parent5c5b0948b448d2a77b7e3ee0337a05271576ca3f
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