On 08/02/2018 01:31 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
I know that it does, but patching hundreds of packages [1] (including ones still to be created) doing tar -czf $file to do instead tar -c | gzip -n > $file
This would be something that tar could and should address, I'd think.
Is there a good reason to want the current time in .gz in this situation?
It seemed like a good idea at the time :-). At this point, it'd be an incompatible change to omit the timestamp.
