Hi,

First, if I recall correctly. There was a 1.3.3. Then very soon afterwards a 
1.3.4. But, nothing since.

> On Jun 15, 2021, at 9:05 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [..]
> kind of conclude from: Date Entered 2021-02-22 that it was relase way before 
> 1.3RC4, but as
> Jerome Shidel said it does not change Date Entered at each release, I did go 
> to:
> Primary site: http://gitlab.com/FDOS/base/fdisk 
> <http://gitlab.com/FDOS/base/fdisk>
> where I saw from https://gitlab.com/FDOS/base/fdisk/-/tags 
> <https://gitlab.com/FDOS/base/fdisk/-/tags> that "latest" 1.3.4 was relased 3 
> monts ago.

For quite a while as a general rule anytime that I update a repo package, I set 
the “Date-entered” field to the date the program was released. However, it is 
not impossible for me to overlook or forget to adjust that field. 

A better field to use is the “Modified-Date”. It is habit for me to delete that 
field and I’ll probably end up automating that so I never forget to do it. When 
a package is uploaded to the repo, the repo management software looks for this 
field and automatically adds it when it is not present. If the field is 
present, the date is assumed to be accurate and left alone. This keeps the 
packages and checksums in the same across multiple repositories. The 
“Modified-date” field is not displayed on the HTML pages for the repository. 
You would need to examine the meta-data (LSM) file. You can either download the 
package or view the text in the pkg-info ( 
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-info
 
<https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-info>
 ) directory for the repo. That directory contains the LSM files (with a .txt 
extension) for all packages and versions in the repository.

:-)

Jerome

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