[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#441722: octave2.9: package content changed if build twice or more times in a row

[Thomas Weber]

Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 18:31 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-09-22 17:48]:
> 
> > I need a decision by the group. Apparently, PDF files can change in
> > size, when rebuilt (don't ask me, I don't understand). Should we forbid
> > dh_compress to compress these files? That's the only fix I can offer
> > currently.
> 
> Will this really fix the problem?  You will still have different
> uncompressed PDF files in both runs, won't you?

>From what I can tell: yes and not. Yes, the files won't be identical.
No, it won't make a difference and there's zero chance that these files
can ever be the same:

$ pdfinfo interpderiv1.pdf
Producer:       ESP Ghostscript 815.03
CreationDate:   Mon Sep 17 17:22:22 2007
ModDate:        Mon Sep 17 17:22:22 2007

So, the creation time stamp is included in the files. There's no way we
can get these binary files to be identical bit-for-bit. 

	Thomas