Bug#366555: Caveat! Re: Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-04-11 Thread A. Costa
Argh, human error, please ignore that laste one if you like -- that was from the draft folder, or rather I was using the 'queue' folder like it was a draft folder again, and hit the wrong Sylpheed 'Send' button. Not that there was anything inflamatory there, but it's been a busy week, so I was

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-28 Thread A. Costa
Pending already. Maybe this reply is better late than never, though it's relevant to the earlier 'freeguide' bug log, particularly regarding homogenized upstream dates. Sometimes one bug is really several. On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:22:44 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, A. Costa wrote: To be clear: this bug #366555 is assigned to dpkg-dev and dpkg-dev doesn't control the timestamp of generated documentation. If you want the generated documentation to have a timestamp that matches the source, you should just write a tool that

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, A. Costa wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, it therefore follows I'd be favoring time wasting over-engineering --- provided of course, there were only two possible ways of dealing with the bug, (1. the wrong way, or 2. no fix at all). But as was

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-19 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:11:35 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, A. Costa wrote: The long bug log clearly says that there's no point to try to conserve timestamps for generated documentation. And I agree with that. Time permitting, would you kindly

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-18 Thread A. Costa
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:11:22 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The long bug log clearly says that there's no point to try to conserve timestamps for generated documentation. And I agree with that. Time permitting, would you kindly tell me where it says that? I reread the whole

Bug#366555: dpkg-source: Timestamps on documentation advance artificially

2008-03-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, A. Costa wrote: The long bug log clearly says that there's no point to try to conserve timestamps for generated documentation. And I agree with that. Time permitting, would you kindly tell me where it says that? I reread the whole BTS log for #366555 yesterday, but