Hi! On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 22:28:12 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > reassign 759886 dpkg-dev > retitle 759886 dpkg-dev: please make mtimes of packaged files deterministic > thanks
Thanks for the patches! > The second patch will use the --mtime and --clamp-mtime option of tar to > clamp the mtime of files recorded in control.tar and data.tar to the > build timestamp: files created at a later time will see their mtime > set to the build timestamp (that's #759886). As --clamp-mtime is only > available since tar/1.28-1 and has not yet been merged upstream, > dpkg-deb will first look for its availability by looking for the option > in the output of “tar --help”. If it's not available, it will fallback > to the previous behavior. The --clamp-mtime options looks primising, but I'm not happy about its current situation. Please get this upstreamed first. I don't mind making dpkg depend on an extremely recent GNU tar, but I really don't want to use a Debian specific option like this, as it could change semantics, etc. And I don't like parsing --help output at all. I still have to fix the situation with dpkg-source using the Debian specifi gzip --rsyncable option, for example. :( Thanks, Guillem
