multiarch = same and different date-entries in generated man page of i32/i64

Anton Gladky gladk at debian.org
Mon Aug 3 20:17:25 UTC 2015


Hi Roelof,

there is a bug [1] with the patch, which replaces the date of autogenerator
by the last changelog date. I think you can try to use this idea
to fix your bugs.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787675

Best regards

Anton


2015-08-03 21:55 GMT+02:00 Roelof Berg <rberg at berg-solutions.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Debian packaging. For my package limereg two bug reports were
> generated, telling me that 'multiarch = same' is void because some man files
> differ between i32 and i64. When I look into the .diff, that is attached to
> the bug report, I see different creation-date entries. The man-pages are
> auto-generated during the packaging, and the content is the same for i32 and
> i64, but the date of the generation (which is included in the manpage
> output) differs.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792624
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792625
>
> Is it necessary to fix this ? The creation date of the man-page isn't that
> important I guess ...
>
> If not (unnecessary to fix): Can I just close the bug and underlign that the
> content of the manpage is equal between both architectures ?
>
> If yes (necessary to fix): As upstream I could consider removing
> man-autogeneration from automake, and add pre-generated files to the
> source-tarball instead. The manpage-generation adds an annoying dependency
> to help2man and doxygen anyway, which people don't need that only want to
> install an unpatched version from the source-tarball.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Regards,
> Roelof
>
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