Re: Proposa: New header to specify how important an upgrade is.
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:48:55PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 15-Jan-00, 14:20 (CST), Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> wrote:
> > [Add last-*-update header, and add to apt to recognize]
> > I think this would be great!! It's very simple to implement and to
> > understand....!
> > What do you think?
>
> I like this idea, but I think you should go all the way and add a
> "Last-update" header. Right now, it's impossible in dselect to tell when
> a package was built, and sometimes that would be useful. What I really
> would like is for the most recent changelog to be available, to see if
> really need to upgrade emacs or tetex again, but then the packages file
> would be twice times as big, so that's probably not going to happen.
Wichert has already mentioned something about adding a header for the
build time (standard GMT based seconds), IIRC.
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