Where have all the packages gone?

[Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net>]

I have been checking the ftp sites regularly to see if any of these
neat new uploaded packages have made it up there...   It's been
awhile.  About 27 or 29 March, as far as I can tell, is the latest of
the new files on the ftp sites I have been watching.  

Did I miss something in all the shuffle?

I would like to suggest that a date field be included in the package
control file header.  When it is included in the Packages file it will
be helpful to those who, like myself, keep their systems up to
date by FTP.  It's a bit late now, but I would again remark that it
has been problematical lately to know which of the new uploads are
essential, at least without keeping the upload postings from the
maintainers, on the lists.  I would suggest here, again, that a
"changes" field be included in the Packages file.

Alan Davis
"Look after truth and goodness.  Beauty looks after herself."
            --- Eric Gill (on typesetting)