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24.3; package-x.el keep modtime on upload

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; package-x.el keep modtime on upload
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:58:23 +1100

Severity: wishlist

It'd good if `package-upload-file' in package-x.el preserved the modtime
of the file when it puts it in the archive.  Keeping the modtime helps
see that it's the same as where it was copied from, in particular if
initial generating or regenerating the archive by copying everything to
it.


In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2013-05-29 on blah.blah, modified by Debian
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)

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Message #8 received at 15742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Cc: 15742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15742: 24.3; package-x.el keep modtime on upload
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:42:46 +0200

Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au> writes:

> It'd good if `package-upload-file' in package-x.el preserved the modtime
> of the file when it puts it in the archive.  Keeping the modtime helps
> see that it's the same as where it was copied from, in particular if
> initial generating or regenerating the archive by copying everything to
> it.

Hm...  I can see the charm, but it's also valuable to be able to see
(and sort) by the time the package was uploaded.  (Conversely, I'm
really, really happy that whenever I download a file, I get the time
stamp of when I downloaded it, not the time stamp of the original file,
because then I can say "ls -lt" etc and find it.)

So I don't think this would be an uncontroversial change, and I'm
closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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