Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive
Dear Bill,
Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:51:25PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:49:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Being compressed at buildtime is not a problem, since the timestamp stored
> > > is the original one, and it can be useful to preserve it.
> >
> > the timestamp stored on the gzip container is the one at build time.
>
> It is the timestamp of the file that is compressed. If the file is taken from
> the original source and the timestamp is not updated when moving it to the
> debian/tmp tree, for example by using 'cp -p', then the gzip file will contain
> the time stamp of the original file.
Just add a "-n" to the gzip call in line 165 of debian/rules and
everyone will be happy:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/tree/debian/rules#n165
Regards, Axel
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