OK, instead of a Date: field in Packages, I can get a better idea of how well maintained a package is with an "updates vs. bugs" perspective, e.g., for package do for u in http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html?src=$package \ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=$package do w3m -dump $u done done OK, I withdraw my Proposal.