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Re: [policy] [PATCH] Fix one call to gzip that was missing -n



On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:01:53AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 18:58 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > This is not needed, these files are not generated at build time, they are
> > simply copied to the build directory using 'install -p', which preserve
> > the timestamp, so the embedded timestamp inside the gzip file is the timestamp
> > of the original files, which is consistent across builds.
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out and sorry for the noise.

No harm done!

Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh, I have been trying to explain that to the
lintian maintainers three time in a row without any success, so I started
to feel like a broken clock.

If you do not mind, please try to include some kind of motivation for your
patches next time instead of a summary of what it does.
It is rather obvious that your patch "Fix one call to gzip that was missing -n"
but why you want to do that is to me to guess (and sometime I will guess wrong
and draw bad inference).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 


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