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		paulddraper 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian bookworm live images now reproducible > Do they forge them? Yes. All archive entries and date source code macros and any other timestamps are set to a standardized date (in the past).

lamby 11 months ago [–]

This is not quite right. At least in Debian, only files that are newer than some standardised date are to that standardised date. This "clamping" preserves any metadata in older files.

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