package date in .deb

[Grant Bowman]

Hello,

This is bug 120707. Does anyone else think this is a good idea?

Regards,

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From: Grant Bowman <gran...@svpal.org>
To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: package date in .deb
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:06:55 -0800
Message-ID: <2001112221...@svpal.svpal.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.11i

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.18
Priority: wishlist

Package dates are not reported. Specifically the date that the package
was created should be part of the .deb file and reported via dpkg -s.

This would be tremendously helpful in knowing the age of a package,
giving a reference that the package is very new (possibly buggy) or very
old (possibly look for newer upstream, new package needed, needs update
for latest release).

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[Steve Greenland]

On 13-Dec-01, 03:09 (CST), Petr Cech <ce...@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> you can always look at changelog. The date is usually not too much off

It would be very useful (IMO) to have it in a place that allows it to
be put in the packages file and/or on the website. Having to install
a package (or grope around on the ftp site) to see how old it is is
tedious.

Steve

[Steve Greenland]

On 17-Dec-01, 07:58 (CST), Adam Heath <doo...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > It would be very useful (IMO) to have it in a place that allows it to
> > be put in the packages file and/or on the website. Having to install
> > a package (or grope around on the ftp site) to see how old it is is
> > tedious.
>

> ar p foo.deb data.tar.gz | tar zxf - ./usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz | less

I didn't make myself clear. I want to be able to see the date
the package was built in the Packages file (so it can show up in
dselect/aptitued/et. al. )and/or on the pages at packages.debian.org.
When I'm making a choice about which of several functionally similar
packages to install, I prefer to avoid three year packages with a
version number of 0.0.1 -- I can be pretty sure they aren't maintained.
Even more useful is would be access to the changelog w/o downloading the
whole .deb (There used to be a "view changlog" link on the package web
pages, but it never[1] worked and has disappeared.)

I know how to find out once I've got the .deb. But downloading emacs to
read the changelog is pretty tedious.

Steve

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Steve Greenland