On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 11:15:50AM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I was suggesting that perhaps the root cause of /why/ the .deb files are not > identical is because if there's no timestamp in the trailer line of the top > changelog entry, that impacts the contents of the .deb.
IMO your debian/changelog should be syntactically well-formed (per https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#debian-changelog-debian-changelog) even when you haven't finalized it. The exact value of the timestamp isn't very important (you can let "dch" pick something when you first add something to the unreleased changelog, and "dch -r" will update it when you're ready to make an upload), but it should be present. Leaving it empty isn't the usual practice among other developers as far as I've seen, and it's just making trouble for yourself. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
