On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:06:00AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Package: quilt > Version: 0.46-4 > Severity: minor > > Hi, > > dpkg-source sets the mtime of all files patched by the .diff.gz to the > same time as to avoid timestamp skews (which can trigger autotools to > automatically update the files). I think quilt could be equally clever > and set the mtime of all files patched by a specific patch to the same > time. I'm setting this as minor and not wishlist because such issues > regularly bite many maintainers (I was bitten again this morning). > > See <http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2008/02/msg00030.html> for > the discussion leading to this bug report. :-)
I come back on this very old bug. Sorry for the delay, I had less time for Debian in between. Could you please elaborate on what is the expected behavior here? You mean that when a patch is pushed, the same timestamp (which one, actually?) must be set on all modified files? It seems rather improbable that anything else happens, doesn't it? I mean all these files are modified automatically, and it seems very probable to me that they all get the same mtime. But I may well be wrong on this. Or maybe you mean that the files timestamps should be restored to their old value when the patch is removed? Anyway, the timestamp handling improved a lot in quilt in the last four years (!), and I would appreciate if you could double-check that the faulty behavior is still there while elaborating what the right behavior should be. Thanks for your time, and sorry for the very long delay. Mt. -- Un clavier azerty en vaut deux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
