tags 884785 + pending thanks Hi Andrea,
> From a quick look at the corresponding report[1], I've found a > small number of false positives: > I'm not sure these are false positives, just a misleading error message due to timezones and/or the same day. For example: > deepin-shortcut-viewer 1.3.3-1 > * (2017-11-30 < 2017-11-30) $ date -R --utc --date="Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:53:40 +0800" Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:53:40 +0000 $ date -R --utc --date="@1512080585" # 4.1.2 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:23:05 +0000 ie. they used Standards-Version 4.1.2 a few hours before it was released. > liberasurecode 1.5.0-1 > * (2017-08-06 < 2017-08-06) $ date -R -u-tc --date="Sun, 06 Aug 2017 02:47:25 +0200 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:47:25 +0000 $ date -R --utc --date="@1501984067" # 4.0.1 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 01:47:47 +0000 ie. they used Standards-Version 4.0.1 about an hour before it was released! I've improved the error messages here: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=5be4539f330d5b2402727064925bfb21eec77e02 Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
