tags 785742 + pending thanks On Tue, 19 May 2015 20:56:17 +0200 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:
> Debugging the lintian FTBFS on reproducible.d.n[1], I have found that > if I override on dh_strip-nondeterminism in the test's rules file, the > unexpected package-contains-timestamped-gzip tag goes away. > > In general, all gzip files in the lintian test suite are generated > with "gzip -n" exactly to avoid this tag. Thanks for the report, Niels. strip-nondeterminism was actually adding back the timestamp using the time from the first entry in debian/changelog. I've just fixed it to not add a timestamp if the gzip file doesn't already have one. That said, I'm now concerned about how strip-nondeterminism interacts with the package-contains-timestamped-gzip tag. At some point after package-contains-timestamped-gzip was first proposed, we reproducible builds folks decided that instead of eliminating timestamps, we should normalize them with the time from the first entry in debian/changelog, to satisfy developers who like timestamps. That means that timestamped gzips aren't bad, as long as the timestamp is reproducible. Other reproducible folks, is this still our position on timestamps? If so, what should become of package-contains-timestamped-gzip? -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
