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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-02-27 11:05:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-04-06 05:05:49 +0200 |
| commit | f79acb2abcecc8aa8e28ca85e149789aa98fc723 (patch) | |
| tree | ba368fd20a54c7e7843d5a7916b458b6d46de55d | |
| parent | cd9def7469966513036a4db842d74112a2627703 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-f79acb2abcecc8aa8e28ca85e149789aa98fc723.tar.gz | |
man: Document that timestamps are reset for format 3.0 (quilt) too
Prompted-by: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> (in #759404)
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-source.1 | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 4348ac214..aacbd9aae 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ dpkg (1.18.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low dselect(1) man pages. * Properly terminate a bold marking in dpkg(1). * Document in man pages the dpkg version when new features were introduced. + * Document that timestamps are reset for files patched with source format + “3.0 (quilt)” too. [ Raphaël Hertzog ] * Drop myself from Uploaders. diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.1 b/man/dpkg-source.1 index d8270b849..b9370869f 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-source.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-source.1 @@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ options and always expect patches that can be applied with the \fB\-p1\fP option of \fBpatch\fP. It will thus emit a warning when it encounters such options, and the build is likely to fail. .PP +The timestamp of all patched files is reset to the extraction time of +the source package (this avoids timestamp skews leading to problems +when autogenerated files are patched). +.PP Contrary to \fBquilt\fP's default behaviour, patches are expected to apply without any fuzz. When that is not the case, you should refresh such patches with \fBquilt\fP, or \fBdpkg\-source\fP will error out while |