Hello, On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 09:59:59AM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Felix Lechner wrote... > > > By the way, the suggestion behind this bug may not be implemented > > anytime soon. It would cause Lintian's output to change over time > > (same Lintian version on same package). Such tags are hard to test in > > Lintian's test suite. > > That argument seems fairly weird to me: Abandon or deny features because > they are difficult to test. By the way, to test behaviour over time, > faketime(1) serves me good enough. But that's your design decision.
Just to make this suggestion more obvious as I got (and needed) this hint: A sensible date to fake (or compare to) would probably be the changelog date. Then the output doesn't vary over time and we also don't get bad positives for old packages. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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