James Addison writes ("Bug#1093412: Regression in tests with new faketime"):
> Furthermore: performing a copy operation on a file from the source
> when using faketime in debian:unstable appears to reduce the mtime of
> the file by the delta duration each time a copy operation occurs:
>
> $ stat -c '%y' reprotest-0.7.29/reprotest/utils.py
> 2023-02-26 22:10:37.000000000 +0000
> $ NO_FAKE_STAT=1 faketime '+331hours' cp -a
> reprotest-0.7.29/reprotest/utils.py .
> $ stat -c '%y' utils.py
> 2023-02-13 03:10:37.000000000 +0000
> $ NO_FAKE_STAT=1 faketime '+331hours' cp -a utils.py utils2.py
> $ stat -c '%y' utils2.py
> 2023-01-30 08:10:37.000000000 +0000
Why are we passing NO_FAKE_STAT here?
Maybe the problem is that faketime isn't honouring NO_FAKE_STAT.
I will see if I can confirm...
Ian.
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