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Re: How to update control file time stamps



 ❦ 16 août 2015 17:54 +0200, Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> :

>> wasn't there a command to update the time stamps of control files in the
>> debian directory?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Malte
>> 
>> 
>
> 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.

You can use dch --edit for that, I think.
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