[Reproducible-builds] Binary packages preserving timestamps from source files

[Stéphane Glondu]

Le 04/02/2014 10:59, Jérémy Bobbio a écrit :
> As I wrote in one of my answers to Guillem:
> “Most packages that I have seen so far do not propagate timestamps when
> copying a file from source.  Could you give me an example of one that
> would do so?”
> 
> No one has been able to give me an example so far. If anyone has an idea
> on how to find one, or can find one, that would be great.

dh_install (and I guess other tools from the debhelper suite) calls cp
with -a, which preserves timestamps.

In hello, the (modification) timestamp of NEWS and debian/copyright are
preserved.

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane