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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-policy: preserve /usr/share/doc/*/* timestamps
- From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:25:21 +0800
- Message-id: <20060315192521.8315.94975.reportbug@jidanni1>
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: wishlist Many /usr/share/doc/*/* file maintainers don't cp --preserve=timestamps (cp -p) their updates. Thus upon ls -l, README.blorg looks like it was updated yesterday, when in fact it hasn't changed since 2002, upstream or downstream. I recall somewhere in some documents a recommendation on keeping original dates, but even many of the sharpest Debian developers aren't hip to cp -p, or cp -a yet. There must be hundreds of packages like this. I suppose I shall find that policy paragraph and file a wishlist bug against such a package when I encounter it. Here offline my slightly stale /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-docs.html 12.3 Additional documentation doesn't mention it. Here policy should urge it. /usr/share/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-docs says to follow the above policy, so putting it into policy would be seen by readers of the Developer's Reference too.
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- To: 357162-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#357162: debian-policy: preserve /usr/share/doc/*/* timestamps
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:25:27 -0500
- Message-id: <87vesw9udk.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
- In-reply-to: <87y7zb7xcx.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:49:18 -0800")
- References: <20060315192521.8315.94975.reportbug@jidanni1> <87y7zb7xcx.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Hi, Policy already has a suggestion to preserve timestamps. manoj -- Ducks? What ducks?? Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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