Control: tags -1 wontfix
Andrej Shadura:
> Source: debhelper
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> As a maintainer and the upstream of inputplug, I ran into this conflict
> between what cargo produces and what the Debian archive expects: since
> [1], cargo publish resets mtime of all files to 0. On the contrary, if
> any of those files leak into .debs, they will be REJECTed by the
> archive [2]. While arguably this is something cargo should not do or my
> d/rules should have fixed, it would be great if debhelper could fix that
> for me.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/8864
> [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/991369
>
>
Hi,
Thanks for the report.
Given this allegedly "only" affects cargo related packages, I think this
work around would fit better in the dh-cargo related tooling rather
than being imposed on all debhelper using packages.
~Niels
