* dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.

  The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
  time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index aaebfb8efe261e5e619756b73369ad8d0f486971..6db4310a499f0d6d2d3f4e86a1a268487159ee59 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+debhelper (6.0.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
+    The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
+    time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:16 -0500
+
 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.

diff --git a/dh_compress b/dh_compress
index d9758f0f9cc9163ecee4548987a2f667bb1a9b1e..2a99677685e67535f5964bfb80c84e8d58982abe 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_compress
+++ b/dh_compress
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
                # Make executables not be anymore.
                xargs(\@f,"chmod","a-x");
                
-               xargs(\@f,"gzip","-9f");
+               xargs(\@f,"gzip","-9nf");
        }
        
        # Now change over any files we can that used to be hard links so