Bug#843867: pbuilder: allow passing the timestamp for the new changelog entry for binNMUs

[Johannes Schauer]

Quoting James Clarke (2016-11-10 09:12:50)
> > In pbuilder's case the date of a binNMU is just `date -R` when the command
> > runs, thus we don't have the same problem as described there.
> > 
> > I'm following that discussion to see what it'll lead to, but I'm
> > unconvinced that we need to mangle the date like you suggest.  Especially
> > your last email that talks about m-a:same potential troubles leaves me
> > unbought, as ma:same is afaik only avout file contents, surely not file
> > metadata (timestamps) (which would be different anyway for the "last
> > timestamp+1sec" as you said?!).
> 
> Well if SDE varies, binaries, manpages etc can end up having different
> contents...

and then packages with the same binNMU number will not be co-installable
anymore if they share a file that ends up having different content because of
S_D_E.

cheers, josch
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