I noticed I only had logs since July, and didn't make the effort to discover whether it was due to a log rotation policy or the log file only being recently introduced. Clearly it's the latter. Thanks for pointing it out.
My main use case was to be able to tell which packages were upgraded or installed since a particular time, for instance, which packages came down in the last dist-upgrade or which dependent packages were installed when I added the unstable repository and did an apt-get install -t unstable <shiny new package>. The new log seems to provide that information. The other thing that would be nice is to list which repository the currently installed package came from, but this should probably be done by comparing the currently installed version to the versions provided by all available repositories at the apt level, even if that is a bit messy. Thanks for your help and time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]