Comment 19 for bug 13458

Rob Browning <email address hidden> writes:

> So it seems like the *only* thing we're in potential disagreement
> about is whether we should automatically invoke this target *iff*
> there's a solid way to automatically determine when doing so would be
> appropriate.

Hmm. As a less automagic alternative, perhaps I could just arrange it
so that we just detect when the debian/autofiles.dpatch is out of date
and then print a suitable error message, rather than trying to update
it, i.e.

  $ fakeroot debian/rules binary
  ...
  ERROR: debian/patches/autofiles.dpatch out of date with respect to
  other patches. Please update it via "debian/rules update-autofiles-dpatch"
  and try again.
  $

The test would be handled via md5sum as previously described.

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