On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 06:24:49PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the tip! > The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog. Then maybe this test could be indicated in the lintian-info output ? This heuristic is not very robust with native source packages. > You did not say which package gives you this false positive. I try to fix debian-policy... I have made a lot of progress, but I still get W: debian-policy: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz which this heuristic cannot deal with. Thanks for your quick reply, this was much helpful. -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
