Package: devscripts Version: 2.18.6 Severity: normal Control: affects -1 publicsuffix
I'd like to use a debian/watch file for the publicsuffix package like this: version=4 opts=mode=git,pretty=%cd,date=%Y%m%d.%H%M \ https://github.com/publicsuffix/list HEAD however, the publicsuffix package versions are using the UTC form of the date of the git HEAD, since it's a global project and commits from around the world. The above invocation of uscan appears to use the timezone stored in the git commit message, which produces variable results. I think the right fix is to change --date=format: to date=format-local:, like so: diff --git a/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/git.pm b/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/git.pm index 1df77c7d..dcfc0154 100644 --- a/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/git.pm +++ b/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/git.pm @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ sub git_search { "--git-dir=$self->{downloader}->{destdir}/$self->{gitrepo_dir}", 'log', '-1', - "--date=format:$self->{date}", + "--date=format-local:$self->{date}", "--pretty=$self->{pretty}" ], wait_child => 1, and then also to explicitly set TZ=UTC for the environment of the spawned git subprocess. (i don't know how to do that with this perl spawn() subroutine, whose documentation i can't locate right now -- hopefully someone else does!) I don't think there's any reason to prefer local time in this case -- presumably we want to measure the timestamp based on a universal, monotonically-increasing clock. --dkg -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBSIGN_KEYID=0EE5BE979282D80B9F7540F1CCD2ED94D21739E9 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.004-1 ii perl 5.26.2-7 ii python3 3.6.6-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 1.7.0 ii at 3.1.23-1 ii curl 7.61.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3 ii debian-keyring 2018.09.30 ii dput-ng [dput] 1.21 ii dupload 2.9.2 ii equivs 2.1.0 ii fakeroot 1.23-1 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gnupg 2.2.10-3 ii gnupg2 2.2.10-3 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.18 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.22-1 pn libgit-wrapper-perl <none> ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 pn liblist-compare-perl <none> ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.07-2 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-1 pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libwww-perl 6.35-2 pn licensecheck <none> ii lintian 2.5.108 ii man-db 2.8.4-2 ii patch 2.7.6-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii python3-apt 1.7.0~rc1 ii python3-debian 0.1.33 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.15-2 ii python3-requests 2.18.4-2 pn python3-unidiff <none> pn python3-xdg <none> ii strace 4.21-1 ii unzip 6.0-21 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 ii wget 1.19.5-1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> ii autopkgtest 5.5 pn bls-standalone <none> ii build-essential 12.5 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii devscripts-el 40.1 ii diffoscope 103 pn disorderfs <none> pn dose-extra <none> pn duck <none> ii faketime 0.9.7-2.1 pn gnuplot <none> ii gpgv 2.2.10-3 ii gpgv2 2.2.10-3 pn how-can-i-help <none> pn libauthen-sasl-perl <none> ii libdbd-pg-perl 3.7.4-1 pn libfile-desktopentry-perl <none> pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.4-1+b1 ii mozilla-devscripts 0.52 pn mutt <none> ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.8p1-1 pn piuparts <none> ii postgresql-client-10 [postgresql-client] 10.5-1 ii postgresql-client-9.5 [postgresql-client] 9.5.4-3 ii postgresql-client-9.6 [postgresql-client] 9.6.5-1 ii quilt 0.65-2 pn ratt <none> ii reprotest 0.7.8 ii svn-buildpackage 0.8.7 ii w3m 0.5.3-36+b1 -- no debconf information