Bug#15946: PROPOSED] time stamps should be preserved

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

James Troup wrote:
  >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.
  >
  >This is pedantry, but is "to the extent possible" really the best
  >possible wording?  It doesn't sound right to me in that context...
 
"as far as is reasonably possible"

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