Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.38
Severity: normal

Dear Debian Lintian Maintainers,

the tags package-contains-timestamped-gzip is documented as:

N:   The package contains a gzip-compressed file that has timestamps. Such
N:   files make the packages unreproducible, because their contents depend
N:   on the time when the package was built.

This of course only apply to files that are generated at build-time, not to files 
that are taken directly from the source package.
Lintian should not emit a warning in the later case, whether the file
is already compressed in the original source, or not.

Thanks for maintaining lintian!
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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