[Reproducible-builds] dpkg has lost some of its superpowers

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Niko,

On Montag, 12. Oktober 2015, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The 5eacc4dbec35525468ad195e6b026a857dc12220 commit message (in
> dpkg pu/reproducible_builds) talks about dpkg-buildpackage setting
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, but the code uses DEB_BUILD_TIMESTAMP.

Ah!
 
> So if I understand this correctly, dpkg-buildpackage now sets
> DEB_BUILD_TIMESTAMP but dpkg-deb looks at SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
> 
> Looks like an accidental merge/rebase error to me?

To me too!

Could someone please rebuild dpkg with that fix, test if this fixes the 
problem and if so, upload to our repo? I'm a bit swamped to do this right now…


cheers,
	Holger, glad that this has been found


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