Bug#15946: PROPOSED] time stamps should be preserved

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

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
>  James> best possible wording?
> 
> 	Is anything ever the best possible wording? ;-)

Good point :)

> I am open to suggestions

FWIW, I like Oliver's suggestion...

> I think this is a fairly common usage.

So is `color' ;-P

-- 
James