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

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Tue Jun 8 04:59:01 UTC 2010


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.


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