Hi, On 2025. Jan 16., Thu at 8:17, Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 1/16/25 13:22, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > There are various things one can do to try to make the output of a man > > page generator like that more consistent, but they don't fix the problem, > > just reduce its frequency, unless Debian sets up to do a fully > > reproducible build with pinned versions of everything (which I don't > think > > we want to do). > > Agreed, it's not a complete fix, but I'd expect the frequency of changes > in the output besides the version number to be low enough for this to be > the least-effort solution. > > If it means we need to trigger a rebuild of a few packages every few > years, then this thread has already used more time. I agree. It is very easy to detect file differences between multiarch packages and scheduling binNMUs. Since the described problem potentially affects all packages shipping man pages with the binaries - which is the best practice - splitting man pages from a single package to solve that particular problem sounds misdirected effort. Cheers, Balint > > Simon > >
