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4.7 Time Stamps
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Maintainers should preserve the modification times of the upstream
source files in a package, as far as is reasonably possible.  (1)

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   (1) The rationale is that there is some information conveyed by
knowing the age of the file, for example, you could recognize that some
documentation is very old by looking at the modification time, so it
would be nice if the modification time of the upstream source would be
preserved.