Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-12-01 Thread Louis Bettens
Booh ! Le 01. 12. 13 06:00, James McCoy a écrit : An alternative would be to use the faketime[0] tool to wrap your dch calls. That's it ! I wondered if something like that existed. Thanks ! I also found out that dch could invoke date -d "@<1970-timestamp>". That does look useful, but if the

Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 07:45:33AM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > > That does look useful, but if there aren't any side effects to setting > > > LC_TIME, I'd prefer that over adding a dependency. It's still simple > > > enough code. > > > > I personally prefer the locale-aware dates in the changel

Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-12-01 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:57:30AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:00:51AM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > > Since there seems to be no way to feed a "%s" value to date, I > > > decided to use strftime(), and thus get rid of the date -R > > > invocation. It seems to me that g

Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-12-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:00:51AM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > Since there seems to be no way to feed a "%s" value to date, I > > decided to use strftime(), and thus get rid of the date -R > > invocation. It seems to me that globally setting the locale to "C" > > doesn't cause trouble ("dch Ìnîtí

Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-11-30 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:47:15PM +0100, Louis Bettens wrote: > Good evening developers, > I'm a novice contributor and I have done some work on your scripts, > which I would like to submit to you. Thanks for your effort! > I didn't found any library that can produce d/changelog files, so I > de

Bug#486594: timestamps

2013-11-30 Thread Louis Bettens
Good evening developers, I'm a novice contributor and I have done some work on your scripts, which I would like to submit to you. I didn't found any library that can produce d/changelog files, so I decided to invoke dch with the right options, besides it can manage multi-maintainer releases,