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. :-)
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages quilt depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.4-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii gawk [awk] 1:3.1.5.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11 a pattern scanning and text proces
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
quilt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Loïc Minier
