Re: Replace use of obsolete Emacs feature "write-file-hooks"

[Paul Eggert]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> I assumed any utility to keeping the time stamps
> update was solely for edits in gnulib itself.

I assumed otherwise, in that if a change was made downstream by hand they'd want 
the timestamps to be updated.

By the way, I would rather remove these timestamps as they are causing 
maintenance issues. They may have been worthwhile in the 1980s before 
version-control was widespread, but nowadays they are more trouble than they're 
worth, in my experience.