Hi Stuart! * Stuart Prescott <[email protected]>, 2014-09-18, 23:35:
The package-contains-timestamped-gzip tag complains about gzipped files that are in the upstream tarball. While it is true that these files were compressed and contain a timestamp, it is not true that this timestamp will be different each time the package is built,
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It would be best if lintian didn't complain about compressed files that are also present in the upstream package.
I think the following heuristics, which doesn't require access to the source package, should work well:
If the gzip timestamp is older than the timestamp from the changelog trailer, then the file wasn't generated at build time, and package-contains-timestamped-gzip shouldn't be emitted.
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