Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 06:24:49PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 08:18:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > the tags package-contains-timestamped-gzip is documented as:
> >
> > N: The package contains a gzip-compressed file that has timestamps. Such
> > N: files make the packages unreproducible, because their contents depend
> > N: on the time when the package was built.
> >
> > This of course only apply to files that are generated at build-time, not to files
> > that are taken directly from the source package.
> > Lintian should not emit a warning in the later case, whether the file
> > is already compressed in the original source, or not.
>
> This is already took care, since #762105, in version 2.5.33.
Thanks for the tip!
> The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog.
Then maybe this test could be indicated in the lintian-info output ?
This heuristic is not very robust with native source packages.
> You did not say which package gives you this false positive.
I try to fix debian-policy... I have made a lot of progress, but I still get
W: debian-policy: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz
which this heuristic cannot deal with.
Thanks for your quick reply, this was much helpful.
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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