Bug#420551: fmtutil-sys failure on ARM on dist-upgrade
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2007-04-23 16:05]:
>> What's the output of "date" in the chroot?
>
> Ah, yes. The year is 2037.
>
>> In the code, it computes the difference between the system date as
>> pdfTeX sees it and the filedate 2005/12/01, and seems to find that
>> it is more than 5 years...
>
> Does such a check make sense in a distro?
No, but why should we patch the upstream sources? It would just be
another source of errors, and the single bugreport we get per year
doesn't do much harm (but helps the reporter a bit...)
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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