Bug#450505: grub2: running binary-arch yields a massive rebuild

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:03:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.95+20071101-1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As can be seen e.g. in
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=grub2;ver=1.95%2B20071101-1;arch=i386;stamp=1193923546
> running dpkg-buildpackage -B (i.e., first debian/rules build, then
> fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch) apparently results in large parts of
> grub2 being rebuilt during binary-arch, wasting autobuilder CPU cycles.

I haven't looked at this in detail, but I think cdbs is the right place to
fix this problem by adding stamp checks there.

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Robert Millan

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