[SCM] mplayer packaging branch, ubuntu, updated. debian/1.0.rc3++final-0ubuntu2

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 06:59:01AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 09:47:10 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:06:46PM +0000, 
>> siretart at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>
>>> build HTML documentation only if not already avaiable in the build 
>>> tree
>>
>> This approach does not work well in case upstream (perhaps 
>> accidentally) shipped with documentation prebuilt, and that 
>> documentation was not up-to-date (or maybe varies depending on 
>> features enabled or not?).
>
>I take that risk. I was directly involved with the rc3 release and 
>intend to push the upcoming rc4 release as well.
>
>> Better to always build but ensure it is built only once (typically 
>> done by the build rule depending on a touch file, and the touch file 
>> being a rule doing the actual build + touching).
>
>As in always throw away upstream provided documentation by always 
>removing on clean? Hm, yes, that would probably work but also increate 
>build time considerably, at least on my laptop.

Debian fundamentally compile from source - instead of trusting upstream 
to ship precomiled material suitable for us.

This applies to both code and documentation.

And yes, compiling requires computing ressources :-)


  - Jonas

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