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Re: Enable timestamps in diff.gz?



#include <hallo.h>
* Adam Heath [Thu, Jul 17 2003, 12:51:26PM]:

> > 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.

<offtopic>
Before you do so, please fix trivial but nasty bugs like #164214
</offtopic>

MfG,
Eduard.
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