[Bug 2052986] [NEW] faketime doesn't fake stat(1) or ls(1) timestamps after Ubuntu 20.10

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In all versions of Ubuntu including and after 20.10 (groovy) (including
22.04, 23.10, and the current devel release noble), the 'faketime'
package fails to correctly fake timestamps for core commands like 'stat'
and 'ls'. Instead, the on-disk timestamps are returned:

  # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/faketime/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME='1970-01-01 00:00:01' stat /
    File: /
    Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
  Device: 72h/114d	Inode: 14475976    Links: 1
  Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
  Access: 2024-02-13 00:08:45.027068497 +0000
  Modify: 2024-02-13 00:08:45.027068497 +0000
  Change: 2024-02-13 00:09:55.450105641 +0000
  Birth: 2024-02-13 00:08:45.027068497 +0000

In Ubuntu 20.04, or with faketime built from current git master, the
correct result is returned:

  # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/faketime/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME='1970-01-01 00:00:01' stat /
    File: /
    Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
  Device: 72h/114d	Inode: 14475976    Links: 1
  Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
  Access: 1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000000 +0000
  Modify: 1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000000 +0000
  Change: 1970-01-01 00:00:01.000000000 +0000
  Birth: -

This seems to be related to upstream bug
https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime/issues/417 which was fixed by PR
https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime/pull/434

Ubuntu directly followed Debian with this bug, it was introduced in
Debian's bullseye (11) release, with the same command working in buster
(10).

Unfortunately, faketime hasn't had a release since the fix for statx was
merged, so Debian hasn't noticed either.

** Affects: faketime (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: faketime (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown


** Tags: patch
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faketime doesn't fake stat(1) or ls(1) timestamps after Ubuntu 20.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2052986
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