Comments regarding suitesparse_4.2.1-1_amd64.changes

Ansgar Burchardt ftpmaster at debian.org
Sun May 5 06:42:48 UTC 2013


Hi,

the changelog mentions

   * debian/rules: recreate d/control when d/library-sonames.pl is
     modified

and it looks like d/control is regenerated automatically during the build as
debian/control is listed as a dependency for the makebuilddir target. Packages
must not do this, see the REJECT FAQ[1].

  [1] <http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html>

If you want to make sure that builds never happen with an outdated d/control,
you can generate d/control.new and make sure both files are identical. But do
not modify d/control during normal builds.

I'm going to accept the package anyway as the logic was already there in
earlier versions, but please fix this in the next upload.

Ansgar





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