Hi Wanderer,
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:13:25AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Do the files in these two ZIPs really need to be compressed? If so, is
> there a way to generate the files differently so that they don't get
> different timestamps? If not, is there a way to do the compression
> differently such that the timestamps don't get recorded in the
> compressed file?
thanks for spotting this.
Summary: This is due to dh_strip_nondeterminism doing more than it
should and will be fixed with the next upload.
Long version:
src.zip contains the source for the documentation files that are in the
package as PDF files. They are not generated at build time, but are
already included as ZIP in the upstream tarball. Therefore, the only
thing that should happen at build time is the copying of the file into
the .deb package.
dh_strip_nondeterminism however wants to normalize this file and adapts
the timestamps.
The next upload will prevent this behaviour of dh_strip_nondeterminism
for src.zip.
Thanks
Thomas
