* Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buch...@inria.fr>, 2014-02-11, 00:56:
There is an ongoing project to build reproducible deps (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). One of tasks is to update lintian to emit a tag on gzips that contain timestamps. I've written a simple checker that does exactly that and emits "package-contains-timestamped-gzip". The patch is attached.
We check for a very similar thing already in files.pm (the gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe tag). Perhaps it would be better to reuse that code.
Niels, do you remember why we read timestamp with sysread() and unpack() instead of using file_info? I have a vague recollection that we did it on purpose, but can't remember the details.
+Severity: normal
It think it should be at most "wishlist", perhaps even "pedantic". -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
