On Wednesday 12 March 2014 23:02:27 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 18:37 -0300 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor
> 
> Pérez Meyer:
> > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will
> > > two developers, who both use uscan to get the original tarball for the
> > > same version and with the same File-Excluded get identical results?
> > 
> > IIRC, it uses an invocation of find to do the job, so I guess the answer
> > is
> > yes.
> 
> it sounded be too good to be true:
> 
> $ rm ../*tar.gz && uscan --download && md5sum
> ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz haskell-ekg: Newer version
> (0.3.1.4) available on remote site:
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ekg-0.3.1.4/ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>   (local version is 0.3.1.3)
> haskell-ekg: Successfully downloaded updated package ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>     and removed files from it in haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> d6af2e99727cfb6abca56d1c5a4d1e92  ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> $ rm ../*tar.gz && uscan --download && md5sum
> ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz haskell-ekg: Newer version
> (0.3.1.4) available on remote site:
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ekg-0.3.1.4/ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>   (local version is 0.3.1.3)
> haskell-ekg: Successfully downloaded updated package ekg-0.3.1.4.tar.gz
>     and removed files from it in haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> 9bd7134bb56a093b5f61ba7b710af826  ../haskell-ekg_0.3.1.4+dfsg.orig.tar.gz

Ah, at the tar level. Yes, they will no be the same.

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