Aha! Found the culprit: debian/rules from next branch, line 42, override_dh_auto_configure target. ./autogen.sh
autogen.sh recreates the text files. Try replacing it with “autoreconf -vfi -I m4” My testing shows that README.i18n is left alone. -john > On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:49, Rodolfo García (kix) <k...@kix.es> wrote: > > Hi John, > > I am using the published tarball and copying the debian folder from the git > to build the package. > > Regards > kix > > El 2 de noviembre de 2015 18:59:40 CET, "John H. Robinson, IV" > <jaq...@sbih.org> escribió: > Rodolfo, > > Are you making from git repository, or the published tarball? The published > tarball at > http://windowmaker.org/pub/source/release/WindowMaker-0.95.7.tar.gz has the > published date (11 August 2015) listed. > > % lsb_release -a; wget -q > http://windowmaker.org/pub/source/release/WindowMaker-0.95.7.tar.gz; tar xf > WindowMaker-0.95.7.tar.gz; cd WindowMaker-0.95.7; sha1sum INSTALL-WMAKER > README.i18n; ./configure &>/dev/null; make &>/dev/null; sha1sum > INSTALL-WMAKER README.i18n > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Debian > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie) > Release: 8.2 > Codename: jessie > 335d8a143ac48e4f6d0ee6a0f0298b5a232f9b0f INSTALL-WMAKER > c3feb033621e0a3003858019add7ef1c7e7b9992 README.i18n > 335d8a143ac48e4f6d0ee6a0f0298b5a232f9b0f INSTALL-WMAKER > c3feb033621e0a3003858019add7ef1c7e7b9992 README.i18 > > -john > > On Nov 2, 2015, at 09:10, Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) <k...@kix.es> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am creating the wmaker package for Debian. I have some questions: > > 1. The build process fails because th script Makefile.am calls > configure-documentation, but the --ignore-prg 'runstatedir' is not included. > > 2. The build scripts modififies the INSTALL-WMAKER and the README.i18n > files. The modification is "Published by The Window Maker team on <date>", > but the date is the compilation date. IMO, this is not right. The Published > date must be fixed. In the Debian build process, the original source file and > the build source should be the same. In th > is > case, the build process fails if we run it twice. > > > Cheers, > kix > Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) > http://www.kix.es/ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.