[vox-tech] debian package upgrade dates

Rick Moen vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:20:32 -0700


Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org):

> i figured this out -- i think you'll like the answer.  every package
> upgrade needs to update the changelog file.  simply look at the
> modification date for /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/changelog.Debian.gz.

Very cool!  I think I'm going to have to find a spot for this in my
Debian Tips file.

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