Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> writes: > How can we tell how old is a package without looking into changelog? > > $ apt-cache policy <package> > $ apt-cache show <package> > etc. does not show date information :-( AFAIK, the only place package date information is stored is in the changelog. Unfortunately, there isn't any way to view the changelog without downloading the package first. http://bugs.debian.org/80123 -- Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>