Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: wishlist Many /usr/share/doc/*/* file maintainers don't cp --preserve=timestamps (cp -p) their updates. Thus upon ls -l, README.blorg looks like it was updated yesterday, when in fact it hasn't changed since 2002, upstream or downstream.
I recall somewhere in some documents a recommendation on keeping original dates, but even many of the sharpest Debian developers aren't hip to cp -p, or cp -a yet. There must be hundreds of packages like this. I suppose I shall find that policy paragraph and file a wishlist bug against such a package when I encounter it. Here offline my slightly stale /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-docs.html 12.3 Additional documentation doesn't mention it. Here policy should urge it. /usr/share/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-docs says to follow the above policy, so putting it into policy would be seen by readers of the Developer's Reference too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
