Keegan Quinn wrote: > 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. He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog. I've wanted the same from time to time. It's a funny omission from the Packages format. And yes, that can be useful information. If you're looking for anything resembling a driver, or the like, or if you just want to make sure a package has had an upload in the past .. 3 years before wasting your time with it. I prefer not to install packages whose maintainers have been asleep for 3 years. -- see shy jo
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