Bug#179271: wish: a 'Date:' field in Packages.gz

["Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

With a Date: field in Packages.gz, one could tell at a glance if a
package hasn't changed in 5 years, etc.  Any other attempt to find
this out takes many more steps, especially when the package has to be
downloaded etc. first or one must make a modem call just to find this
out.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-9     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library

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