On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:40 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > >> Imagine, "freshness dating available right there on the grocer's > >> shelf, in Packages.gz. No need for the consumer to jump through > >> additional hoops to find out." > > PW> Which date would it contain? > > The date the maintainer made the polishing touches on the .deb. > That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been > updated in ten years. > > Well OK, assuming network connections, one can always just do e.g., > $ apt-get -yyqq --print-uris install abiword| > perl -F\' -alnwe 'print $F[1]'|xargs --verbose -n 1 HEAD -P|grep -i Last-Modified > HEAD -P http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvoikko/libvoikko1_2.0-1_i386.deb > Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:02:17 GMT > HEAD -P http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgsf/libgsf-gnome-1-114_1.14.11-2_i386.deb > Last-Modified: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:47:03 GMT Thats the filesystem datestamp on the mirror, not the last time the maintainer made an upload. -Rob
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