Bug#884785: lintian: False positives for timewarp-standards-version

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 884785 + pending
thanks

Hi Andrea,

> From a quick look at the corresponding report[1], I've found a
> small number of false positives:
> 

I'm not sure these are false positives, just a misleading error message
due to timezones and/or the same day.

For example:

>   deepin-shortcut-viewer 1.3.3-1
>     * (2017-11-30 < 2017-11-30)

  $ date -R --utc --date="Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:53:40 +0800"
  Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:53:40 +0000

  $ date -R --utc --date="@1512080585"  # 4.1.2
  Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:23:05 +0000

ie. they used Standards-Version 4.1.2 a few hours before it was
released.

>   liberasurecode 1.5.0-1
>     * (2017-08-06 < 2017-08-06)

  $ date -R -u-tc --date="Sun, 06 Aug 2017 02:47:25 +0200
  Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:47:25 +0000

  $ date -R --utc --date="@1501984067"  # 4.0.1
  Sun, 06 Aug 2017 01:47:47 +0000

ie. they used Standards-Version 4.0.1 about an hour before it was
released!

I've improved the error messages here:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=5be4539f330d5b2402727064925bfb21eec77e02


Regards,

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