On 2023-09-19 Shengjing Zhu <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:08 PM Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: [...] > > Looking at the changelog entry > > * Drop specify-timestamp.patch, applied upstream in binutils 2.41 > > (Closes: #1042734) > > changing the rdeps does not make any sense at all, since the > > --insert-timestamp support is now supposed to be available upstream? > > Since binutils-mingw-w64-i686 is reported to be 2.41 the support should > > be available. So is binutils-mingw-w64-i686 actually 2.41 and if yes, > > why does "applied upstream" not hold?
> Upstream implements it in a different way, it doesn't take argument in > --insert-timestamp option, it just looks SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH implicitly. > Ref > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=6badd1020f5bebd3f60a780b8e41a1b581046087 Thanks for the explanation. cu Andreas