Should display a package date column

[James Moger]

I am not familiar with the internals of deb archives... but it would be really helpful for synaptic to report the packaging date of the deb (or some type of relevant date) as a column.

Its very difficult to know what is new/recent and what is really old without having an intimate understanding of the versioning scheme of each package of interest. Perhaps deb archives don't have such a field - which would be a design flaw, in my opinion.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

What would be the use-case of such a field? I.e. what information to you to you want to extract from it?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could we close this bug Michael?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Synaptic will always only show you the latest version of a package. Furthermore I also cannot imagine a good use case.

Cheers,

Sebastian

[Joril (jorilx)]

I'd like to point out my usecase for this feature :) When an updated deb is released, I'd like to wait a few days before applying it, as an attempt to avoid "oops we fixed this but broke that"-patches.. So a "date" column in Synaptic would greatly help.