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--- Begin Message ---Package: freeguide Version: 0.10.3-1 Severity: minor The dates of the files in '/usr/share/doc' help readers find what's new and different. But: # how many files in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide'? % ls /usr/share/doc/freeguide | wc -l 16 # count repeats of the 16 file dates in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide' # first column is the count. % ls -l /usr/share/doc/freeguide | cut -b 30-41 | sed '/^$/d' | sort | uniq -c 1 Apr 13 11:40 1 Apr 13 11:58 1 Apr 13 15:24 13 Apr 13 15:48 # 13 of this one. Something's needlessly advancing the dates, even though some files, ('README.Debain' for example), apparently haven't changed since 2004. User experience: I'd read the new changelog, it said there was a new upstream version, so I was trying to learn what's new by looking at the dates in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide'; that doesn't work when the dates are the same. It would be better if each file was dated by its most recent change of content. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages freeguide depends on: ii gij [java-virtual-machine] 4:4.0.3-3 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii gij-4.0 [java-virtual-machine 4.0.3-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii j2re1.4 [java2-runtime] 1.4.2.03-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir ii xmltv-gui 0.5.42-4 Graphical user interface related t Versions of packages freeguide recommends: ii xmltv-util 0.5.42-4 Utilities related to the XMLTV fil -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---This bug report suggests going to too great lengths to preserve time stamps. Debian policy has the following to say: Maintainers should preserve the modification times of the upstream source files in a package, as far as is reasonably possible. This formulation was, IIRC, chosen because we want packages to preserve timestamps of files, where possible, but not go to absurd lengths to do so. Therefore, debhelper is careful to preserve timestamps while installing dcumentation and other files, by using cp -a and install -p. Going any further, by trying to somehow preserve timestamps of files created by the Debian diff just violates the KISS principle. Trying to make compiled files have the same source timestamp as the source file goes a step further and is just wrong. -- see shy jo
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