Bug#939673: lintian: test failure with new gzip?

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Control: tag -1 + pending

Hi Gianfranco,

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 8:39 AM Gianfranco Costamagna
<locutusofborg@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, somebody in ubuntu uploaded the new gzip 1.10 and now we have this test failure:
>
> # Missing tags:
> #   package-contains-timestamped-gzip

According to the changelog for gzip, the timestamps are no longer issued.

> * Noteworthy changes in release 1.10 (2018-12-29) [stable]
>
>   Compressed gzip output no longer contains the current time as a
>   timestamp when the input is not a regular file.  Instead, the output
>   contains a null (zero) timestamp.  This makes gzip's behavior more
>   reproducible when used as part of a pipeline.  (As a reminder, even
>   regular files will use null timestamps after the year 2106, due to a
>   limitation in the gzip format.)

I moved the relevant functionality from the test 'files-general' to a
new test 'timestamp-in-piped-gzip' and limited the latter to gzip <<
1.10.

> This started with 2.20.0 with commit ea2fac33c4c21d185430c48e387ad198cc0c1436, the first release with the new timestamped-gzip test...

The problem no longer occurs past commit 74137cac. I tested it by
installing gzip 1.10 from Ubuntu.

Thank you for reporting the issue so early. That version of 'gzip' is
not even in Debian yet.

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner