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Re: How old is a package



On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:40:50PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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 :-(

That's true. You could look at the dates displayed by 'ar tv foo.deb',
which will tell you when it was built, but that currently isn't indexed.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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