On 2016-11-10 10:00 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> The date from the last sourceful upload should probably still be used
> for any date/time information included in generated files to ensure
> they are identical on all architectures (or at least to try to do so).
>
> If you change the date in the binNMU entry, SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should
> probably be set to the date of the last sourceful upload (instead of
> just using the most recent changelog entry).
Wouldn't this cause dpkg-deb to clamp the mtime to that date, precisely
the problem this thread is all about?
Cheers,
Sven
