Package: dpatch
Version: 2.0.29
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 dpatch 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).
This could be achieved with touch "--date=(LC_ALL=C date)" <patched
files> or something similar.
See <http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2008/02/msg00030.html> for
the discussion leading to this bug report. :-)
Thanks!
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Loïc Minier
