Your message dated Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:41:13 -0700 with message-id <cafhyt54vsyy-ffgnrm0+rk_csv3or0x6z4wqj2sumq6dk8s...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive has caused the Debian Bug report #801528, regarding lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.38 Severity: normal Dear Debian Lintian Maintainers, the tags package-contains-timestamped-gzip is documented as: N: The package contains a gzip-compressed file that has timestamps. Such N: files make the packages unreproducible, because their contents depend N: on the time when the package was built. This of course only apply to files that are generated at build-time, not to files that are taken directly from the source package. Lintian should not emit a warning in the later case, whether the file is already compressed in the original source, or not. Thanks for maintaining lintian! -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, > (gz_mtime != 0) and (gz_mtime - changelog >= 0) (2) That check was rewritten not too long ago. I ended up using exactly that algorithm after some research (but without seeing this bug): https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/checks/files/compressed/gz.pm#L78 Additional details can be found in these commits. (The code moved subsequently.) https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/249dcbc7be8fa8615299e39f475ef92eda74c268 https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/aca68d8b7d0be0b2c5be8fe4985718477fe61d01 > but certainly now [that algorithm] won't work very well A test case proves the tag works, but d/rules turns off dh-strip-nondeterminism: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/cea58cc580451211216459171c87f22be5c433e9 As predicted by Tomasz Buchert, the test fails when those lines are removed: -override_dh_strip_nondeterminism: - # Skip, it messes with our test > Basically it looks as if dh-strip-nondeterminism/toolchain strips/will > strip so much that this tag may not be useful anymore. That conclusion seems reasonable but is wrong: In a recent run across the archive, the tag appeared in 143 source packages! The tag works as intended. Closing this bug. Kind regards Felix Lechner
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