Bug#895686: marked as done (installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system)

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--- Begin Message ---
Package: installation-birthday
Version: 8
Severity: minor

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Hash: SHA1

Dear Maintainer,

I have a system that was originally installed as Etch/amd64 via debootstrap
from a running Gentoo system.  Since then, I've used LVM to migrate the
filesystems to new drives, and done some filesystem convertions (e.g.
reiserfs/ext3 to btrfs), and enabled multiarch, among other things.

Here's what installation-birthday thinks about my system:
% installation-birthday --verbosity 2
D: Determining block device for /
D: Checking mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Checking mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Checking mtime of /lost+found
D: Failed to get mtime of /lost+found
D: Checking mtime of /root
D: Using mtime from /root
D: Today's date: 2018-04-14
I: Installation date: 2017-08-27
D: Dates do not match

The system is *definitely* older that that.  My oldest files in /var/log are
from 2007-12-17 ('news/', 'uucp.log', and 'boot.2.gz').  That seems like the
right timeframe for when I may have done the install.

It's been a while, but I know it was no earlier that the release date of Etch,
as I was awailing and official release with amd64 support.  I believe it was no
later than 2008-04-01, because I was running Debian on my desktop before I
installed OpenSUSE on my laptop to "dogfood" during a contract where I was
porting software to SLES and that contract started 2008-03.

installation-birthday gives the same output when run as root via sudo.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable'), (850, 
'proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages installation-birthday depends on:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.43.4-2
ii  python33.5.3-1

installation-birthday recommends no packages.

installation-birthday suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message ---
Source: installation-birthday
Source-Version: 15
Done: Chris Lamb 

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-birthday, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 895...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Lamb  (supplier of updated installation-birthday 
package)

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believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:47:02 +0100
Source: installation-birthday
Architecture: source
Version: 15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Chris Lamb 
Changed-By: Chris Lamb 
Closes: 895686
Changes:
 installation-birthday (15) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Correct confusing internal logic of "--force" from being visible to users.
 Thanks to Boyd Stephen Smith for the bug report. (Closes: #895686)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0.
   * Update my copyright years.
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Bug#895686: marked as done (installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my system)

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and subject line Bug#895686: fixed in installation-birthday 9
has caused the Debian Bug report #895686,
regarding installation-birthday: Incorrectly identifies the birthdate of my 
system
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: installation-birthday
Version: 8
Severity: minor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Dear Maintainer,

I have a system that was originally installed as Etch/amd64 via debootstrap
from a running Gentoo system.  Since then, I've used LVM to migrate the
filesystems to new drives, and done some filesystem convertions (e.g.
reiserfs/ext3 to btrfs), and enabled multiarch, among other things.

Here's what installation-birthday thinks about my system:
% installation-birthday --verbosity 2
D: Determining block device for /
D: Checking mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Checking mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Checking mtime of /lost+found
D: Failed to get mtime of /lost+found
D: Checking mtime of /root
D: Using mtime from /root
D: Today's date: 2018-04-14
I: Installation date: 2017-08-27
D: Dates do not match

The system is *definitely* older that that.  My oldest files in /var/log are
from 2007-12-17 ('news/', 'uucp.log', and 'boot.2.gz').  That seems like the
right timeframe for when I may have done the install.

It's been a while, but I know it was no earlier that the release date of Etch,
as I was awailing and official release with amd64 support.  I believe it was no
later than 2008-04-01, because I was running Debian on my desktop before I
installed OpenSUSE on my laptop to "dogfood" during a contract where I was
porting software to SLES and that contract started 2008-03.

installation-birthday gives the same output when run as root via sudo.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable'), (850, 
'proposed-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages installation-birthday depends on:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.43.4-2
ii  python33.5.3-1

installation-birthday recommends no packages.

installation-birthday suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: installation-birthday
Source-Version: 9

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-birthday, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 895...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Lamb  (supplier of updated installation-birthday 
package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:24:12 +0100
Source: installation-birthday
Binary: installation-birthday
Architecture: source all
Version: 9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Chris Lamb 
Changed-By: Chris Lamb 
Description:
 installation-birthday - Receive a message on system installation anniversary
Closes: 895686
Changes:
 installation-birthday (9) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Also use /var/lib/vim to determine installation date. Thanks to Boyd
 Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) for the report. (Closes: 
#895686)
   * debian/control:
 - Add python3-distutils to Build-Depends.
 - Drop "X-Python3-Version"