bug#17625: 24.4.50; All installed packages marked "unsigned", no archive listed

[Glenn Morris]

clone 17625 -1
retitle -1 record metadata when installing packages
severity -1 normal
stop

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> That's by design: we shouldn't care where it came from.

I think installing a package should record information such as: which
archive it was installed from, and the install date. This is how eg
rpm/yum behaves.

(This is a totally separate issue from the signing of packages, so I
have (hopefully) cloned a new bug for it. Let's try and send further
correspondence about this aspect to whatever the new bug number ends up
to be...)