Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Far more productive than filing a bug against policy would be to look at patterns in packages that don't preserve timestamps and see if there are tools that could be updated. dh_installdocs does preserve timestamps, so any package that uses debhelper will only have this issue if the documentation files are installed outside of the debhelper scripts. I don't think policy is the appropriate forum for this sort of suggestion. The Developer's Reference would be a better place to put it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
