Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-12 Thread Tomasz Buchert
Hi Niels, On 11/02/14 19:11, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2014-02-11 10:53, Tomasz Buchert wrote: [...] Hi, Thanks for working on it and producing a patch for it as well. :) Currently, it will emit package-contains-timestamped-gzip on any file ending with .gz, being a gzip file and

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-12 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Tomasz Buchert: The reason I did it is that I wanted to keep backwards compatibility. Another solution is to drop gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe altogether, of course. The latter is severity “important”. “Multi-Arch: Same” packages for different architecture will be uninstallable if

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-12 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 12/02/14 11:03, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Tomasz Buchert: The reason I did it is that I wanted to keep backwards compatibility. Another solution is to drop gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe altogether, of course. The latter is severity “important”. “Multi-Arch: Same” packages for

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-11 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 11/02/14 06:54, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2014-02-11 01:20, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Tomasz Buchert tomasz.buch...@inria.fr, 2014-02-11, 00:56: There is an ongoing project to build reproducible deps (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). One of tasks is to update lintian to emit a

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Tomasz Buchert: +Severity: normal It think it should be at most wishlist, perhaps even pedantic. Let's make it pedantic, but hopefully one day it will be normal. Could we go for “wishlist” instead? I know that switching to reproducible builds sounds like a major shift in

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-11 Thread Tomasz Buchert
On 11/02/14 10:09, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Tomasz Buchert: +Severity: normal It think it should be at most wishlist, perhaps even pedantic. Let's make it pedantic, but hopefully one day it will be normal. Could we go for “wishlist” instead? Hi, I reworked the patch so

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-11 10:53, Tomasz Buchert wrote: On 11/02/14 10:09, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Tomasz Buchert: +Severity: normal It think it should be at most wishlist, perhaps even pedantic. Let's make it pedantic, but hopefully one day it will be normal. Could we go

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-10 Thread Tomasz Buchert
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.21 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, There is an ongoing project to build reproducible deps (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). One of tasks is to update lintian to emit a tag on gzips that contain timestamps. I've written a simple checker that does

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Tomasz Buchert tomasz.buch...@inria.fr, 2014-02-11, 00:56: There is an ongoing project to build reproducible deps (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). One of tasks is to update lintian to emit a tag on gzips that contain timestamps. I've written a simple checker that does

Bug#738591: lintian: Add checker for timestamped gzip files

2014-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-11 01:20, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Tomasz Buchert tomasz.buch...@inria.fr, 2014-02-11, 00:56: There is an ongoing project to build reproducible deps (see https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds). One of tasks is to update lintian to emit a tag on gzips that contain timestamps. I've