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Bug#204751: marked as done (checking timestamps of files in uploaded packages)

Your message dated Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:54:26 -0800
with message-id <87y7og27bx.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Bug#204751: dupload should check for ancient time stamps
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: dupload
Version: 2.6.1

dupload didn't catch this one:

Debian Installer writes:
> 
> Rejected: python2.3-pyvtk_0.4.66-1.1_all.deb: has 19 file(s) with a time stamp too ancient (e.g. usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyvtk/DataSet.py [Wed Dec 31 19:00:01 1969]).
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the
> override file requires editing, reply to this email.

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Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> writes:

>> the original bug is the utimes bug in glibc, which is worked around in
>> python2.3, but there should be some place to check for:
>> 
>> - lintian / linda
>> - dupload / dput
>> - ftp.debian.org

> If such a check would be needed, it would be the domain of lintian. I
> think it makes sense that lintian would check at least the things that
> the archive software does, but it's up to the lintian maintainers to
> decide whether to implement this. Reassigning there.

lintian already checks for ancient timestamps.

Tag: package-contains-ancient-file
Type: error
Info: Your package contains a file that claims to been generated more
 than 20 years ago. This is most probably an error. Your package will
 be rejected by the Debian archive scripts if it contains a file with
 such a timestamp.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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