Bug#843867: pbuilder: allow passing the timestamp for the new changelog entry for binNMUs

James Clarke jrtc27 at jrtc27.com
Thu Nov 10 11:12:50 UTC 2016


> On 10 Nov 2016, at 11:07, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at mapreri.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, 11:48 a.m. Johannes Schauer, <josch at debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: pbuilder
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> currently, binNMUs changelog entries are generated by re-using the
>> timestamp from the previous upload with source.
> 
> In pbuilder's case the date of a binNMU is just `date -R` when the command runs, thus we don't have the same problem as described there.
> 
> I'm following that discussion to see what it'll lead to, but I'm unconvinced that we need to mangle the date like you suggest.  Especially your last email that talks about m-a:same potential troubles leaves me unbought, as ma:same is afaik only avout file contents, surely not file metadata (timestamps) (which would be different anyway for the "last timestamp+1sec" as you said?!).

Well if SDE varies, binaries, manpages etc can end up having different
contents...

James



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