Hi,
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> Could you please clarify exactly what text you want to add to the
Ian> policy manual ?
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Time Stamps
Maintainers are encouraged to preserve the modification times of
the upstream source files in a package, to the extent possible. The
rationale is that there is some information conveyed by knowing the
age of the file, for example, you could recognize that some
documentation is very old by looking at the modification time, so it
would be nice if the modification time of the upstream source would
be preserved.
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I may put the rationale as a footnote to the actual document.
Ian> I would be opposed to any change that would declare it a bug for a
Ian> package to change these timestamps.
As would I
manoj.
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