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 written a >> simple checker that does exactly that and emits >> "package-contains-timestamped-gzip". The patch is attached. > > We check for a very similar thing already in files.pm (the > gzip-file-is-not-multi-arch-same-safe tag). Perhaps it would be better > to reuse that code. > > Niels, do you remember why we read timestamp with sysread() and unpack() > instead of using file_info? I have a vague recollection that we did it > on purpose, but can't remember the details. >
Yes, file(1) cannot reliably detect gzip files[1] and I guess I figured it was easier to do it with sysread than have file-info-helper replace even more of file(1) job. >> +Severity: normal > > It think it should be at most "wishlist", perhaps even "pedantic". > ~Niels [1] Apparently based on the timestamp it "randomly" decides to misreport it as a different file type. At least that is my conclusion based on the test failures we used to have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
