package date in .deb

[Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>]

Hello,

This is bug 120707.  Does anyone else think this is a good idea?

Regards,

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>


----- Forwarded message from Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org> -----
From: Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: package date in .deb
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:06:55 -0800
Message-ID: <20011122210655.A25914@svpal.svpal.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.11i

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.18
Priority: wishlist 

Package dates are not reported.  Specifically the date that the package
was created should be part of the .deb file and reported via dpkg -s.

This would be tremendously helpful in knowing the age of a package,
giving a reference that the package is very new (possibly buggy) or very
old (possibly look for newer upstream, new package needed, needs update
for latest release).

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>
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