cjwatson@ries:~/ftp/pool/main/p/php-compat$ dpkg -c 
php-compat_1.6.0a3-1_all.deb | grep 
usr/share/doc/php-compat/tests/function/acosh.phpt
-rw-r--r-- root/root       263 2011-06-30 23:16 
./usr/share/doc/php-compat/tests/function/acosh.phpt

I think what happened is as follows:

  1) The Debian maintainer uploaded this package from a build directory where 
those files had newer mtimes, and those mtimes were copied into the .deb.
  2) dpkg-source does not create diff entries when only a file's timestamp 
differs between the original source and the build directory.
  3) As a result, when unpacked on a buildd and built afresh, it builds a .deb 
with ancient mtimes that would be rejected by dak and are rejected by Launchpad.

This package will fail in Debian too once Debian moves to throwing away
maintainer-uploaded binaries and building them anew (which was discussed
at DebConf and is supposed to be happening reasonably soon).  As such, I
would recommend filing a Debian bug about this, and fixing the package
directly in Ubuntu if it's urgent (e.g. by explicitly touching the
affected installed files).

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