On 29/05/2007 Ben Hutchings wrote: > There were some discussions on -private (and possibly here?) earlier in > the year about quality vs quantity of packages. > > [...] > > I don't think we want to start grading maintainers and I believe there's > a consensus that we should not be more selective about packages, but I > think it would be a service to our users to grade how well supported > packages are. I have a number of ideas for ways in which this could be > done, but I think a discussion would yield something better that might > eventually be accepted cover a whole release. Publishing the date of last upload is a very useful information here, especially if you need to choose an application out of several unknown alternatives. I would love to see the date of last upload published at packages.debian.org at least. A timestamp Field in every Package (which is automatically created at build process) would be even better. greetings, jonas
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