bjoern <r10s@b44t.com> wrote:
> maybe_add_time_based_warnings() requires some date guaranteed to be in the near past. based on
this known date we check if the system clock is wrong (if earlier than known date) and if the used
Delta Chat version may be outdated (1 year passed since known date). while this does not catch all
situations, it catches quite some errors with comparable few effort.
>
> figuring out the date guaranteed to be in the near past is a bit tricky. that time, we added
get_provider_update_timestamp() for exactly that purpose - it is checked manually by some dev and
updated from time to time, usually before a release.
>
> however, meanwhile, the provider-db gets updated less frequently - things might be settled a bit
more - and, get_provider_update_timestamp() was also changed to return the date of the last commit,
instead of last run. while that seem to be more on-purpose, we cannot even do an “empty” database
update to update the known date.
>
> as get_provider_update_timestamp() is not used for anything else, maybe we should completely
remove that function and replace it by get_last_release_timestamp that is then updated by
./scripts/set_core_version.py - the result of that is reviewed manually anyway, so that seems to be
a good place (i prefer manual review here and mistrust further automation as also dev or ci clocks
may be wrong :)
