On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:18:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > the tags package-contains-timestamped-gzip is documented as: > > N: The package contains a gzip-compressed file that has timestamps. Such > N: files make the packages unreproducible, because their contents depend > N: on the time when the package was built. > > This of course only apply to files that are generated at build-time, not to > files > that are taken directly from the source package. > Lintian should not emit a warning in the later case, whether the file > is already compressed in the original source, or not.
This is already took care, since #762105, in version 2.5.33.
The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog.
You did not say which package gives you this false positive.
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