Bug#802561: dep3_headers: Pre-fill 'Last-Update'.

[Daniel Shahaf]

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:57:54 +:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:29:24 +:
> > -+  Last-Update: <-MM-DD, last update of the meta-information, 
> > optional>
> > ++  Last-Update: $(LC_ALL=C date +%Y-%m-%d) <-MM-DD, last 
> > update of the meta-information, optional>
> 
> An analogous change was just made to 'dpkg-source --commit' (in #828146).

Ping?  Will the patch be considered for the next upload?

Bug#802561: dep3_headers: Pre-fill 'Last-Update'.

[Daniel Shahaf]

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:29:24 +:
> -+Last-Update: <-MM-DD, last update of the meta-information, 
> optional>
> ++Last-Update: $(LC_ALL=C date +%Y-%m-%d) <-MM-DD, last 
> update of the meta-information, optional>

An analogous change was just made to 'dpkg-source --commit' (in #828146).

Bug#802561: dep3_headers: Pre-fill 'Last-Update'.

[Daniel Shahaf]

Package: quilt
Version: 0.63-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Please find attached a trivial enhancement to 'quilt header -3 --deb3' to save
maintainers a manual step.

Cheers,

Daniel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default 
locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages quilt depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils  9.0.6
ii  bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat  1.60-1
ii  gettext   0.19.6-1
ii  patch 2.7.5-1
ii  perl  5.20.2-6

Versions of packages quilt recommends:
ii  less  458-3

Versions of packages quilt suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.86-4
pn  graphviz   
ii  procmail   3.22-25

-- debconf information:
>From e127780bd0dcd32bfaf2f96f6a43330049a0c050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Shahaf 
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:11:32 +
Subject: [PATCH] dep3_headers: Pre-fill 'Last-Update'.

---
 debian/patches/dep3_headers | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/patches/dep3_headers b/debian/patches/dep3_headers
index 3f6ddd6..88ced16 100644
--- a/debian/patches/dep3_headers
+++ b/debian/patches/dep3_headers
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Index: b/quilt/header.in
 +		Forwarded: 
 +		Applied-Upstream: 
 +		Reviewed-by: 
-+		Last-Update: <-MM-DD, last update of the meta-information, optional>
++		Last-Update: $(LC_ALL=C date +%Y-%m-%d) <-MM-DD, last update of the meta-information, optional>
 +		---
 +		This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
 +		END
-- 
2.6.1