GNU bug report logs - #63044
[PATCH] gnu: python-setuptools: Disable date checking in bdist_egg.py

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Message #58 received at 63044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brian Cully <bjc <at> spork.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 63044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>,
 jgart <jgart <at> dismail.de>
Subject: Re: bug#63044: [PATCH] gnu: python-setuptools: Disable date
 checking in bdist_egg.py
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 18:37:12 -0400

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Yes.  I’m surprised we didn’t hit a problem before, despite 
> having
> thousands of Python packages.  Can we work around it for the one 
> package
> that hits that bug?  (Until a fix like you propose lands.)

Yeah, I've given up trying to do this the “right” way. See #63149 
for an updated patch that just copies in the ensure-mtime 
procedure with a change to check for symlinks.

> If you can use @@ to get at ‘ensure-no-mtimes-pre-1980’, I’d 
> still
> suggest to do that for ‘criu’.

This is what I've done for ‘sssd’, see #63091. For ‘criu’, see 
above.

-bjc

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