[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#834139: ncbi-tools6: please add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> > feel free to do a team upload if nobody insists explicitly.
> 
> I would but I must admit I'm not sure how to integrate my patch into the
> patch system used in this repo. To test it in my local reproducibility
> pipeline I migrated my local version to quilt (with the previous
> .diff.gz as a separate patch), but I'm a bit reluctant to make such
> stylistic changes in a package not primarily maintained by me.
> Do you have a pointer to a resource teaching me how to use the old patch
> system?

Hmmmm, I have not dived into the packaging of ncbi-tools6 (and can't
find any .diff.gz - am I missing something) but in principle we should
ask the maintainer (Aaron) to craft the packaging to some default that
is maintainable by somebody else in the team as well.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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