Comment 6 for bug 488724
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 488724] Re: commands updating working tree should provide the same modification time for all modified files | #6 |
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:54 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> Vincent, could you explain why this is 'udd'?
Packages which are for autoconf style build systems with maintainer-mode
always enabled, will trigger autoreconfiscation when the timestamps are
skewed, and this can fail (in particular when the packager doesn't
expect this to happen), and can add huge diffs that are not desired.
Some folk even patch configure itself, so this can interfere with that
too. (I'm not arguing for or against these things, just that they
happen, and we interfere).
-Rob