[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#374515: fetchmail/contrib/ dates so new

Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Sat Jun 24 19:48:57 UTC 2006


> ? I cant see anything wrong here. The dates are correct. If
> you mean the ls -l output thats caused by the build process
> of the package.

file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-source.html#s-timestamps

> why contrib/README.gz should inform about debian changes?=20
> This file is upstream, README.Debian is downstream and the=20
> correct place to document this.

You modified the contents of the directory without modifying the index
to that directory.

This causes us to read about something interesting but then we can't
find it. Bait and switch. At least put the words "[Removed by Debian]"
next to the ones you took away.

Just saying something in README.Debian isn't good enough.




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