[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#843773: Bug#843773: Bug#843773: misleading timestamps in binnmus

[Wouter Verhelst]

Hi,

(Sorry for piping in so late to the party here)

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:10:57PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> But maybe to talk about this option: what would speak against changing the
> "nmu" command of wanna-build to also add an option that allows setting a
> timestamp, or even let wanna-build generate that timestamp itself (from the
> time it processes the "nmu" command) and then pass it to sbuild via a
> not-yet-existing --binNMU-timestamp option?

Wanna-build has a "State-Change" date:

wouter at wuiet:~$ wanna-build -A powerpc --info nbd
nbd:
  Package             : nbd
  Version             : 1:3.14-4
  Builder             : buildd_powerpc-porpora
  State               : Installed
  Section             : admin
  Priority            : source
  Installed-Version   : 1:3.14-4
  Previous-State      : Uploaded
  State-Change        : 2016-11-21 23:13:18.744533
  Build-time          : 9255
  CalculatedPri       : 50
  component           : main
  Distribution        : sid
  Notes               : out-of-date
  Old-Failed          : -------------------- 1:2.9.23-1 --------------------
    fails test suite
  State-Days          : 9
  State-Time          : 835808
  Success-build-time  : 366

Why not use that?

-- 
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
 -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12