includeonly and page numbering

Question

I am writing a fairly large documents that contains different chapters included in the main .tex file using the \include command. I find this to be practical as I can then compile a single chapter keeping page numbers and links to other chapters using the \includeonly command.

Recently, I found that \inlcudeonly may be responsible for the addition of a blank page at the end of a document though. I found a fix which is based on a redefinition of the \include command:

\let\oldInclude=\include
\def\include#1{\bgroup\def\clearpage{\relax}\oldInclude{#1}\egroup}

However, this fix seems to create some other issues. In my case, it impacts page numbering due to a conflict with the hyperref package. Everything is fine when compiling the whole document but the compilation of a single chapter (or more) using \includeonly yields some wrong numbering of the last two pages...

I was able to reduce the problem to a mwe where the application of this fix generates a compilation issue. Here are the commands to execute to see the problem: pdflatex main.tex. The compiled pdf has then proper page numbering. Then uncomment the line of \includeonly and run: pdflatex main.tex again.

The resulting pdf has unproper page numbering...

with main.tex:

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,fleq,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[]{hyperref}

% fix
\let\oldInclude=\include
\def\include#1{\bgroup\def\clearpage{\relax}\oldInclude{#1}\egroup}

%\includeonly{chapitre_1}

\begin{document}
    \include{description}
    \include{chapitre_1}
    \include{chapitre_1_exercices}
\end{document}

and where description.tex is:

\newpage
\section*{Plan de cours pour la session d'}
Le cours \dots

chapitre_1.tex is:

\newpage
\section{Chapitre 1}

\label{chap_1}
% table des matières
\newpage
\subsection{Introduction}
    Contenu du chapitre\dots
\newpage
    page supplémentaire pour afficher les numéros de page

and chapitre_1_exercices.tex is:

\newpage        
\subsection{Exercices d'application}
    Liste d'exercices\dots

I do not see how to update the fix...