Re: How to update control file time stamps
Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@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.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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