Bug#1078687: tetzle: malformed debian/changelog (missing date line)

[Chris Lamb]

Source: tetzle
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
tetzle could not be built reproducibly. The cause is the lack of a
"-- Foo Bar <foo at bar> <timestamp>" line, which was seemingly caused by
a mismerge in [1].

I'm always surprised that the archive even accepts changelogs like this,
but I suppose from dak's perspective, the timestamp (if it even cares
about the uploader's timestamp at all) can be found in the .changes
file.

My quick reading of Policy is that this is actually RC bug, but as it
doesn't seemingly break anything apart from reproducible builds and
misc scripts people run against the archive, I'm filing as important.

A patch is attached that adds the appropriate line. I used the timestamp
from the Git tag for this release if that's useful.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
 [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tetzle/-/commit/63ca5a4c8bf422d7fdfda2d52a72229ec5717361


Regards,

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--- a/debian/changelog	2024-08-14 10:35:47.728409986 +0100
--- b/debian/changelog	2024-08-14 10:47:41.875054706 +0100
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
   * Update standards verion to 4.7.0
   * update copyright years
 
+ -- Jonathan Carter <jcc at debian.org>  Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:16:01 +0200
+
 tetzle (2.2.3-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Non-maintainer Upload.