Bug#15946: PROPOSED] time stamps should be preserved
Hi
>>"James" == James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
James> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
>> Maintainers are encouraged to preserve the modification times of
>> the upstream source files in a package, to the extent possible.
James> This is pedantry, but is "to the extent possible" really the best
James> possible wording?
Is anything ever the best possible wording? ;-) I am open to
suggestions (that is what this dicussion period is for, is it not?)
James> It doesn't sound right to me in that context...
It doesn't? Sounds right to me but then I have been raised on
what is termed "literary english". I think this is a fairly common
usage.
manoj
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. Andrew Lang
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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