Hi Roelof, there is a bug [1] with the patch, which replaces the date of autogenerator by the last changelog date. I think you can try to use this idea to fix your bugs.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787675 Best regards Anton 2015-08-03 21:55 GMT+02:00 Roelof Berg <rb...@berg-solutions.de>: > Hi, > > I'm new to Debian packaging. For my package limereg two bug reports were > generated, telling me that 'multiarch = same' is void because some man files > differ between i32 and i64. When I look into the .diff, that is attached to > the bug report, I see different creation-date entries. The man-pages are > auto-generated during the packaging, and the content is the same for i32 and > i64, but the date of the generation (which is included in the manpage > output) differs. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792624 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792625 > > Is it necessary to fix this ? The creation date of the man-page isn't that > important I guess ... > > If not (unnecessary to fix): Can I just close the bug and underlign that the > content of the manpage is equal between both architectures ? > > If yes (necessary to fix): As upstream I could consider removing > man-autogeneration from automake, and add pre-generated files to the > source-tarball instead. The manpage-generation adds an annoying dependency > to help2man and doxygen anyway, which people don't need that only want to > install an unpatched version from the source-tarball. > > Thanks :) > > Regards, > Roelof > > -- > debian-science-maintainers mailing list > debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
