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Bug#825222: marked as done (lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source)

Your message dated Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:42:48 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#825222: lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source
has caused the Debian Bug report #825222,
regarding lintian: please allow debian/source/timestamps in unknown-file-in-debian-source
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.44
Severity: normal

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In the Free Pascal stack, it is common to have .ppu files. Consider them sort
of binary header files. Unfortunately, these files contain the timestamp of the
source file. This is undesirable because when these files are patched, the
timestamp of the build is stored in those ppu files and so:
1) the build becomes unreproducible¹
2) reverse dependent packages think the source was updated and will require a
rebuild of the source

To circumvent this I am adding a helper function to the fpc package (see
discussions on the pascal-devel list²) to store timestamps in the debian
packaging and use those to force the timestamps to something resonable. I
intent to store those timestamps in debian/source/timestamps.

I think that is a resonable place, so please don't error out on it in
unknown-file-in-debian-source.

Thanks for lintian.
Paul

¹ https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInPPUGeneratedByFPC
² http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-pascal-devel/Week-of-Mon-20160516/001234.html

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Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (60, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Chris Lamb wrote:

> tags 825222 + wontfix
> thanks
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> > Because there are already so many files in debian/ and I liked the idea
> > because it manipulates the source (like a patch).
> 
> Whilst I understand what you mean, I'm not completely convinced :) I mean,
> almost everything under debian/ "manipulates the source" and, again,
> the "source" subdirectory is — at least to me — de facto reserved for the
> source format in a dpkg sense.
> 
> I'm thus marking this at wontfix
[…]

(I'm actually going to go ahead and close this.)


Regards,

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