On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 05:29:08PM +0100, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Reimar Döffinger <reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 03:49:09PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 22.01.2015 15:31, wm4 wrote: > > > >If the build date is not correct, then what value does the build date > > > >have at all? > > > > > > How do you know it is 'correct' currently? > > > One can change the system clock (or use faketime). > > > > And someone could hand-edit the revision number... > > I think we have to assume non-maliciousness, otherwise it's all > > pointless. > > > > > What value has the 'correct' build date? > > > If you build an ffmpeg version from a year ago today it will contain the > > > current date. That's rather misleading. > > > > As it is the build date I see nothing misleading about that at all. > > I would buy the argument though that having the build date at all > > is useless and should be removed. > > > > > With the --build-{date,time} options one can specify meaningful values > > such > > > as the time of the last change to the source. > > > > Then it's not the build date. > > If we want a last-changed-date we should change it to > > that. > > But having a build date that in Debian actually is the > > last-source-change date, except when something goes > > wrong and it's something completely wrong seems to me > > to defeat the purpose (assuming there is one in the first place). > > I vote for just removing the build date. > > As an alternative I vote to change it to use the date of > > the last commit if the source tree is clean and has git info > > available, current date otherwise. > > What do others think? > > > > > Remove it for all I care, the important part is the revision info and the > compiler used.
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