Bug#1104854: binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon Josefsson writes ("Re: Bug#1104854: binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages"):
> In this case, is the problem triggered by this line?
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/autogen/-/blob/8b4268fa779deaba862a7938ee0d5f051860d8e7/debian/rules#L11

If we're editing thie package, I think we should just get rid of the
timestamps in the manpages rather than trying to control more sensibly
which (sort-of-fake) timestamp we put in there.

Those dates in manpages are not really useful - they're a relic from a
time when one would print manpages out and want to know if the
printout was too out of date.  The source-code-last-touched date is
not very useful any more even for that niche use case.

Ian.

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