Bug#130064: Package file should include date information
Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
If "apt-ftparchive" can create index file "Packages.gz" including a date
information, it should be quite useful to see the activity of
development on the files in archive without downloading whole package.
For this end, date can be taken from "ar tv foo.deb data.tar.gz" and
included as "Date: XXXXXXX".
This should make these infomation available with "apt-cache show" with
a minimal (or no) change. (It may break some packages though)
If I am filing this to a wrong package, please reassign this to the
right one. See below discussion for the background.
Cheers :-)
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:38:46PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii apt-utils 0.5.4 APT utility programs
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+ Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D +
+ My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
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