Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

[Keegan Quinn <kquinn@respond2.com>]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03:09 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Sure, "you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did
> apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version".  Well, one
> doesn't need the maintainer field either etc.

Are you implying that knowing the date you last updated somehow helps you find 
out who created the package?

ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages

This would give you the time your Packages files were last updated.  Is this 
what you were looking for?  Your message does not exactly make it clear.

 - Keegan