On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:21:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: libvirt > Version: 2.3.0-3 > Severity: serious > > [...] > > $ apt-get source libvirt > $ cd libvirt-2.3.0/ > $ touch docs/apibuild.py > $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b >../log 2>&1 > > [...]
I disagree that this is RC, because no sane autobuilder would ever do that. Not every modification to a source package will always keep the property that it still builds, and IMO timestamps are already a kind of modification. Should not we consider "respecting timestamps as produced by dpkg-source and friends" as an essential part of the build process for a Debian source package? This may (or may not) be a Makefile bug in the upstream package in an abstract sense, but I don't see it as a bug in the Debian source package version 2.3.0-3 as found in the Debian FTP archives. BTW: Did you try touching docs/apibuild.py.stamp as well? Thanks.
