Hi Russ,
Russ Allbery wrote:
> > # -ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar:
> > ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1969-12-31 23:59:59
> > # +ancient-source (source): unpack-message-for-source tar:
> > ancient-source-1.0/README: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 00:59:59
>
> The exactly one hour difference makes me suspicious something is going on
> with time zone conversions. That's also consistent with the one hour time
> difference between UTC and Europe/Zurich at New Years.
>
> Looking at the source of tar, the output timestamp for this error seems to
> be in local time by default, which would certainly explain the problem but
> not why we're not seeing it everywhere. I would be curious if it went
> away if you added --utc to the flags to tar in
> Lintian::IO::Select::unpack_and_index_piped_tar
Nice idea! Will definitely try.
> or (bigger hammer) just set TZ=UTC when running Lintian.
I tried with TZ=GMT. I also tried TZ=UTC, but that had no effect. I
think you need to use TZ=Etc/UTC there instead.
> Lintian should probably force all output it controls to UTC for
> reproducibility, including tar's, but I'm still mystified as to why it
> works on the other system. This part of tar doesn't seem to have changed,
> and as you mentioned replacing tar didn't change anything.
Exactly. All of that. :-)
Regards, Axel
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