Hi Dominique, On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 04:27:40PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday, 27 March 2017 19:07:06 CEST Guido Günther wrote: > > So either the builder > > is messing things up here or something else (package import or copy to a > > temporary build place) is messing things up in the source resulting in > > bad timestamps in the binary package. > > Yes. You're right, Turns out that pristine-tar is setting the timestamp of > all > files [1] when creating a tarball. > > The code that tweak timestamp has been present since 2007. I'm beginning to > wonder if that's should be considered as a bug or a feature. > > I'll check with Perl6 upstream what can be done to avoid relying on timestamp > to trigger module rebuild. > > I'll close this bug.
Thank you for investigating. What about reassigning to pristine-tar? I wonder why it doesn' try to preserve timestamps. Cheers, -- Guido > > Thanks the the help > > All the best > > [1] see all calls to utime around there: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/pristine-tar.git/tree/pristine-tar#n368 > > -- > https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ > http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org >
