[Reproducible-builds] dpkg has lost some of its superpowers

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:35:18PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:

> │ -rw-r--r-- 0/0      4 Oct 11 12:08 2015 debian-binary
> │ -rw-r--r-- 0/0   4814 Oct 11 12:08 2015 control.tar.gz
> │ -rw-r--r-- 0/0 250668 Oct 11 12:08 2015 data.tar.xz
> │ +rw-r--r-- 0/0      4 Oct 11 12:10 2015 debian-binary
> │ +rw-r--r-- 0/0   4814 Oct 11 12:10 2015 control.tar.gz
> │ +rw-r--r-- 0/0 250668 Oct 11 12:10 2015 data.tar.xz

Ok, as an experiment I managed this to be 1970-01-01 by setting
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 before dpkg-buildpackage.

But I don't think setting such variable should be required, because
then: why Bug #759999 talks about the latest changelog entry?

This is supposed to be automatic, right?

Thanks.