[Reproducible-builds] Lintian checker for gzip files

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Tomasz Buchert:
> I've been at FOSDEM and I liked the presentation
> about reproducible builds in Debian - an interesting
> project! To help a bit, I've just prepared a patch
> for lintian that checks for gzips with timestamps
> and emits a tag. Please see:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738591
> 
> If time permits, I can help in other things as well :).

Welcome! :)

I have added the necessary usertags to make the bug appear on our
scorecard:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org

And also updated the wiki page about that specific issue:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampInGzipHeaders

I hope the lintian maintainers will welcome your code. I am quite
curious about the amount of packages that are affected. We would be
able to know by looking at lintian.debian.org.

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