Bug#895686: My ancient installation is mis-dated again.

Hi, > Is the --force doing something weird? Where'd that "Installation date:" line > come from; it is very different from the not-forced version. D'oh, of course it is. Blame 2017 lamby for a very silly way of implementing the force argument. Uploading now... Best wishes, -- ,''`.

Bug#895686: My ancient installation is mis-dated again.

On Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:43:37 AM CDT Chris Lamb wrote: > Can you provide the output of: > > $ ./installation-birthday --verbosity 2 ---8<--- bss@monster % installation-birthday --verbosity 2 D: Determining block device for / D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/installer D: Failed to get

Bug#895686: My ancient installation is mis-dated again.

Hi, > I think somehow taking into account /var/lib/vim got reverted / > back-leveled ? I can't immediately see how - we even prefer the "oldest" mtime we can find, but perhaps there was a bug in the handling that. Can you provide the output of: $ ./installation-birthday --verbosity 2 ...

Bug#895686: My ancient installation is mis-dated again.

bss@monster % installation-birthday --force I: Installation date: 2018-04-15 /usr/bin/installation-birthday:92: DeprecationWarning: dist() and linux_distribution() functions are deprecated in Python 3.5 distname=platform.linux_distribution()[0].title(), 0 0