remake (4.1+dbg1.1+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!

  The ar program in the binutils package in Debian is now configured
  with --enable-deterministic-archives. This change makes the archives
  reproducible, by setting the UID, GID, and timestamp to 0. However,
  when dealing with archives created with the libxx(*.o) style rules,
  make needs the timestamp of the file in order to decide to update it
  or not. With the current deterministic behavior of ar, the time stamp
  is always 0. This has consequences, since make will fall back to always
  adding each member to the archive, whether or not it is required. This
  is a change in behaviour, and, for instance, it makes make fail to
  build, failing 7 out of 10 archive tests.
  .
  Since binutils will create archive with time stamps set to 0 when
  running in "deterministic" mode, make will always try to update such
  members. When this is detected, make will emit a warning.
  .
  There is some online discussion:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798804
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798913
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195883

 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:09:19 -0800
