Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:09:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > That already exists (see the dpkg-source manual page), but IIRC isn't > allowed in the archive because the ftp-masters do not want to have to > analyse the whole history of a git repository for DFSG issues. On Tue, Nov 01, 2016

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:09:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 17:26 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > At that point the best solution would be an alternative source > > package format that is based on git. > > That already exists (see the dpkg-source manual page), but IIRC

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 17:26 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > At that point the best solution would be an alternative source > package format that is based on git. That already exists (see the dpkg-source manual page), but IIRC isn't allowed in the archive because the ftp-masters do not want to have

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:58:12PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more > messages]"): > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:42:26AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... > > > If it does "sufficiently diff

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]"): > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:42:26AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: ... > > If it does "sufficiently different" things, but still succeeds, when > > the timestamps are permited the

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:42:26AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >... > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps"): > > Be prepared to see a lot of such issues when you touch random files. > > I'm certainly expecting to see lots of issues. > > IMO if a package FTBFS when its

Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2016-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Rebuilds with unexpected timestamps"): > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Could someone point me at some tools, or volunteer to help, or something ? > > Check out the wiki page about this: > https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/ArchiveTesting Oh,