[apparmor] [PATCH] parser: Preserve techdoc files in the clean target

intrigeri intrigeri at debian.org
Fri Jan 20 15:46:29 UTC 2017


Tyler Hicks:
> On 01/20/2017 02:15 AM, intrigeri wrote:
>> note that as far the Debian packaging is concerned, I'll keep building
>> that file from source: that's the only way to guarantee that we
>> distribute the source "code" corresponding to the binary artifacts
>> included in our binary packages. This doesn't conflict with the
>> proposed patch though, I'll just need to delete the pre-built PDF
>> found in the upstream tarball before building, to ensure it is indeed
>> built from scratch :)

> I don't think this is going to work as well as you'd like. :/

> The pdf is being generated in a 'setup' target, which the Debian
> packaging doesn't currently use and I'm not even sure if it should use
> it. Deleting the pdf and then building the package, in the way that
> Debian packaging is currently doing it, will not regenerate the pdf file.

Do you mean this won't work anymore once the patch proposed on this
thread is applied? (FTR it seems to work just fine in 2.11.0-1.)

> In Ubuntu, I was planning on using the pre-generated pdf.

Then I guess we should simply agree to disagree about this aspect of
Free Software :)



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