Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> writes: > Sorry for being unclear.
> Some of the control files used for packaging end with a time stamp that > also includes the maintainers name and email address, e.g. README.Debian > and README.source. > I'm looking for an easy way to update that footer after editing the > file. So unfortenately, touch doesn't help me. If you're an Emacs user, readme-debian-mode will automatically update the timestamp and author on each save of the file. If you're not an Emacs user, and there's no similar macro for your editor, I personally would be tempted to just remove the timestamp line and not bother with it. It's not worth manually updating. It's not required; having it there is just a convention. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
