On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 01:30:44PM +0000, Lucas wrote: > Agree this is hackish at the very least, but for the time being this is > the only thing we have. Upstream already fixed it and put some effort > to make this less frequent in the future. Still, haven't rolled out any > release yet, and isn't sure if a release is justified already. Afterall this shifts maintainence burden from upstream to downstream; no matter what they do, as long as there's no new release, we have to work things around.
I'm not saying this in order to keep mblaze broken, but our manpower is very limited and approaches like generally don't help improving the situation. > While discussing the proposed patch, Leah pointed me out that > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is a convention [0]. Attached patch changes the value > to 0, which, althought it isn't exactly compliant, it prevents the port > for changing values in the package after every build. Sounds good, I'll commit that regardless of the release issue, thanks. > The post-extract: chunk can be left out for being too hackish, but I > consider the rest of the changes should be merged. Agreed.
