timestamps and export

[Jonathan Lange]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:08 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a bug in the builddeb plugin that is caused by exporting
> the same branch twice at different times, and so getting two
> different tarballs.
>

Is this a side-effect of gzip including a timestamp in the created .gz
file? If so, would it be acceptable to use something like bz2 instead?

not-letting-whelming-ignorance-stand-in-the-way-of-a-question'ly yrs,
jml