On 1/20/26 9:19 AM, Roland Clobus wrote:
Hello maintainers of snapshot.debian.org,
While trying to reproduce the official live images of Debian, I've
noticed that the timestamp of .deb files differ between deb.debian.org
and snapshot.debian.org [1].
An example: (Downloaded with wcurl, then: TZ="Z" ls --time-style=+%s -l)
https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hwdata/pnp.ids_0.394-1_all.deb
1743744651
https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20251231T202918Z/pool/main/h/
hwdata/pnp.ids_0.394-1_all.deb
1743756392
I've found the code on Salsa [2], but don't know where to start looking
to prepare a fix.
That's probably very hard to fix. We don't keep the timestamps as far as
I know and the first seen timestamp is when we created the file in the
pool. The redirect you get directs the web server to fetch the file from
the filesystem and that is attaching the timestamp to the download. We
could in theory scrub the timestamp there but that would not be helpful
either.
I think the answer should be to compare under scrubbing of timestamps on
your side, unfortunately. I assume we already do that in other cases.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
