Bug#993339: Package: reprotest Debian Salsa reprotest fails due to different compile times

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your bugreport, but it seems to me that reprotest is not failing
but rather producing failure results when rebuilding your package. Is that
correct? If so, it's not a bug in reprotest... :)

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 09:33:26PM -0400, Christopher Talbot wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 18:00 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > Maybe when the job was first run, SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was set to a date
> > later than the file unpack times (e.g. maybe due to timezone?)... and
> > thus wouldn't clamp the timestamps ... that might explain re-running
> > the
> > job later suceeding.
> > 
> > 
> > live well,
> >   vagrant
> 
> Unfortunately, I do not know enough about reprotest to know what causes
> it.
> On a hunch, I also decided to rerun reprotest, and it worked this time:
 
> https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/vvmd/-/pipelines/283265
> 
> So it seems to be some sort of time/date dependent bug?

Vagrant suggested a possible explaination... see above :)

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	Holger

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