Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-09 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Dear J??r??my Bobbio, you wrote: Control: tags -1 + patch tony mancill: Thanks for the suggestion and for looking into the cause of the issue with the bobcat build. I'm suspect that Frank, the upstream developer, will be willing to address this in a future upstream release. Of course I

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-09 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Hi Frank, Frank B. Brokken: Of course I am. Could somebody please enlighten me what the problem actually is? This is the first time in my l-o-o-o-o-ng life that I learn about a thing called a `timestamp of a gzip file' and that it may cause problems. In Debian context, it currently can pause

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-09 Thread Frank B. Brokken
Dear J?r?my Bobbio, you wrote: ... For the latter to work, we need to eliminate any variations coming from external factors, like timestamps. Hope that helps, Absolutely, Thanks for the speedy clarification! Cheers, -- Frank B. Brokken Center for Information Technology,

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-09 Thread tony
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:47:49AM +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote: Dear J?r?my Bobbio, you wrote: ... For the latter to work, we need to eliminate any variations coming from external factors, like timestamps. Hope that helps, Absolutely, Thanks for the speedy clarification!

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-08 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: bobcat Version: 3.15.00-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! In the effort of making Debian binary package build reproducible [1], I have noticed that your package currently ship gz compressed files with a timestamp. Adding the `-n` or `--no-name` flag to the various calls to `gzip` made in

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-08 Thread tony mancill
On 09/08/2013 10:30 AM, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Package: bobcat Version: 3.15.00-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! In the effort of making Debian binary package build reproducible [1], I have noticed that your package currently ship gz compressed files with a timestamp. Adding the `-n` or

Bug#722166: bobcat: Please do not write timestamps in gzip files

2013-09-08 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Control: tags -1 + patch tony mancill: Thanks for the suggestion and for looking into the cause of the issue with the bobcat build. I'm suspect that Frank, the upstream developer, will be willing to address this in a future upstream release. Great! Attached is a patch that indeed did the