Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist I'd like to see apt able to check a mirror to see how 'fresh' it is. My initial concept was something like this:
Expand the "Releases" file to include a version number of some kind Add a new kind of deb line to sources.list that says where to get the authoritative version of Releases "deb-chk http://central.repostory /location" When apt-get update is run, warn about sources that have a stale Releases version -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux joeysmith.com 2.4.20-xfs #1 Wed Jan 22 19:21:59 MST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
