On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 17:26 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Earlier today I uploaded version 4.1.1-1~exp1, with some of the changes > here. I built it once on ext4 and then on xfs, hoping to change > directory ordering. > > A summary of the debbindiff: > > 1. timestamps are different on all files in control.tar.gz > 2. timestamps are different on many files in data.tar.{gz,xz} > 3. anchor IDs are different in generated HTML docs > 4. 'Author' and 'Manual' fields in the manual page header and footer differ > where the manual page is generated from headers referenced by multiple > DocBook files > > I believe items 1 and 2 are covered by #759886. > > I investigated item 3 further and have now fixed it in svn. > > Item 4 could be fixed by your generate-manpage-in-deterministic > -order.patch but I would like to find a cleaner solution to it.
I've fixed item 4 in svn by annotating and filtering out duplicates from the DocBook files. I also found and fixed an instance of using the current time (for the date in manual pages). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.
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