Bug#1078081: reprotest: Can't change modification date when invoked against packaging directory (instead of .dsc)

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2024-08-06, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> while running
> $ reprotest .
>
> I've run into the following type of failure independent of the package
> I'm trying to test:
>
>
> dpkg-source: info: utilisation de la liste de patchs de
> debian/patches/series
> dpkg-source: erreur: impossible de modifier la date de build-
> experiment-1/.pc/applied-patches: Invalid argument
> dpkg-buildpackage: erreur: le sous-processus dpkg-source --before-build
> . a retourné l’état de sortie 22

Wild guess ... can you try with --vary=-time ?

And maybe with LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 locale if it still spits out errors? :)

reprotest's use of faketime tends to trigger issues with patch
systems...


live well,
  vagrant
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