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Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files



Tomasz Buchert:
> The reason I did it is that I wanted to keep "backwards compatibility".
> Another solution is to drop "gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe"
> altogether, of course.

The latter is severity “important”. “Multi-Arch: Same” packages for
different architecture will be uninstallable if they do not contain
identical data files. That's a serious problem. Reproducibility issues
do not affect users in the same way.

It could make sense to emit either “gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe” or
“package-contains-timestamped-gzip” instead of emitting both as they
should be fixed by the same changes.

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