On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > What do you think of modifying dpkg-source to include the timestamp > information in the diff files and invoking patch with -Z ? older dpkg-source's can't handle diffs with timestamps(it verifies the sanity of the diff before applying). This bug needs to be fixed, before we can enable timestamps. Or, we can juse have a whole new source format, where this isn't a problem. This is the plan for dpkg 2.0.