>> Imagine, "freshness dating available right there on the grocer's >> shelf, in Packages.gz. No need for the consumer to jump through >> additional hoops to find out."
PW> Which date would it contain? The date the maintainer made the polishing touches on the .deb. That way one could tell, even when offline, if a package hasn't been updated in ten years. Well OK, assuming network connections, one can always just do e.g., $ apt-get -yyqq --print-uris install abiword| perl -F\' -alnwe 'print $F[1]'|xargs --verbose -n 1 HEAD -P|grep -i Last-Modified HEAD -P http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvoikko/libvoikko1_2.0-1_i386.deb Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:02:17 GMT HEAD -P http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libg/libgsf/libgsf-gnome-1-114_1.14.11-2_i386.deb Last-Modified: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:47:03 GMT But the same could be said about some of the other fields, like Size. Just do another HEAD to get the Size. But OK, Size is more important than Date, so it gets a field in Packages.gz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org