Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2018-07-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Thorsten, > > far easier and clearer IMHO to statelessly state that clamping is not > > required when using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. :) > > OK, now I do not understand _that_… (It's clearer to say "X is the situation" vs "when you said Y before that was correct/incorrect") Regards, -- ,''`.

Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2018-07-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > far easier and clearer IMHO to statelessly state that clamping is not > required when using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. :) OK, now I do not understand _that_… Doesn’t matter as long as this bug gets fixed, though ☻☺ Have a nice day, //mirabilos -- >> Why don't yo

Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2018-07-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Thorsten, > > It is not required. > > I’m parsing this as “you were not incorrect”, right? It doesn't really matter whether you were correct or incorrect in the past and seems a little silly to debate that; far easier and clearer IMHO to statelessly state that clamping is not required when us

Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2018-07-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Chris, > It is not required. I’m parsing this as “you were not incorrect”, right? (Sorry, non-English-native speaker here.) > Does the canonical specification not explain? > > https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/ > > I pedantically refer you to that /only/ because if it

Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (was Re: RCC: provide option to encode EPOCH timestamp)

2018-07-07 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Thorsten, > AIUI, S_D_E is used as a *delimiter*, not as a timestamp *all* files > are to be set to. I've found that having a shared vocabulary is very useful so just in case it helps we tend to use the term "clamping" when referring to this MIN(a,b) concept rather than "delimiter" or similar.

Bug#894476: rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (was Re: RCC: provide option to encode EPOCH timestamp)

2018-07-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
affects 894476 src:musescore retitle 894476 rcc: please honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH thanks Hi *, I just got bitten by this in an FTBR of src:musescore which I tracked down to this bug. On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Sune Vuorela wrote: > If S_D_E gets used, rather than the data.xml modified date in the > sou