timestamps and export

[James Westby]

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 13:00 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that's the root of the problem.

>  If so, would it be acceptable to use something like bz2 instead?
> 

I'm not sure what the status of allowing source packages to have
.orig.tar.bz2 in addition to .orig.tar.gz is, but such packages
are not currently accepted in to the archive, so it's not a fix we
can use.

Thanks,

James