Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-08-01 Thread Boyuan Yang
在 2019-08-02五的 02:24 +0800,積丹尼 Dan Jacobson写道: > Let's look at a typical "Download" page, > https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/couchsurfing-inc/couchsurfing-travel-app/couchsurfing-travel-app-4-26-0-release/#downloads > as we see dates are of utmost importance. > > Wherever we see a version number, we

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-08-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Let's look at a typical "Download" page, https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/couchsurfing-inc/couchsurfing-travel-app/couchsurfing-travel-app-4-26-0-release/#downloads as we see dates are of utmost importance. Wherever we see a version number, we see a date. In fact I'm sure you would be hard pressed

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I don't think there's any bug here, TBH. And if there was this would be the wrong package to assign to. On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 09:22:29 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Let's examine how extremely hard it is for a user to squeeze update date > of a package he is

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "YW(" == Yao Wei (魏銘廷) writes: YW(> A probably known easier way is to see the standardized changelog of the package. There should be a date in each version. OK, so smart users know that the Date is hiding in the $ w3m -dump https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin | grep

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
A probably known easier way is to see the standardized changelog of the package. There should be a date in each version. Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.) > On Aug 1, 2019, at 09:27, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Package: www.debian.org > > Let's

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Let's examine how extremely hard it is for a user to squeeze update date of a package he is thinking of installing out of the Debian system. First of all update dates are not part of any Package* file. So forget apt, etc. Now we must turn to the web. Case in point: