[Debian-med-packaging] Differences in repackaged tarballs (Was: libsbml_5.4.1-2_amd64.changes REJECTED)

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:01:27PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> 
> Ok, strange, but obviously true. The upload with sources from the
> archive did work.

After having read

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00378.html

I do not consider it strange any more.  The changed timestamp of
directories makes a valid point here.

IN any case I'm using the same option as uscan in get-orig-source
scripts I'm writing which are

   GZIP="--best --no-name" tar --owner=root --group=root --mode=a+rX -czf ...

which makes perfect sense to me to set also reasonable/unified
permissions in the resulting tarball.  I wished this would somehow be
encapsulated in some wrapper script which can be used in all
get-orig-source scripts and could be adapted to something even better if
new knowledge comes in later.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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