On 1/29/25 13:42, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I don't see what information is useful in a software release tarball that needs to go in there?
The main bugaboo I see is AIX 'make', which says A is out of date if it has the same timestamp as B. With ustar format timestamps have only 1 s resolution so this could provoke unnecessary actions that might cause a build to fail if the builder lacks some developer tools. With posix format timestamps have 1 ns resolution so it's not a practical problem.
If you insist on GNU 'make' then this is also not a problem. Or if you arrange for timestamps to be at least 1 s apart in this situation - but if you're going to do that, you might as well use 1 s resolution everywhere.
