Re: New package fields (was: Re: lsof)
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:
> There is this idea which I keep coming back to in various situations -
> how about some "creation date" field which will list the time that
> particular Debian revision was created? That way it might be possible
> to find how up-to-date a package is.
A good aproximation is the date of the last change added in the
changelog.debian file, for example:
"
perl (5.003.07-6) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed perl, perl-suid, and perl-debug to section interpreters.
...
-- Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> Fri, 17 Jan 1997 19:04:13 -0800
... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"
(Of course, you can't see that if you don't unpack the package).
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna
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