[Synaptic-devel] Feature Request - A "Build Date" Column in List

[Scott White]

Hello Everyone,

First, I'd like to say thanks for such an extremely useful and 
well-designed app. I haven't had to deal with command-line rpm 
dependency hell in months, thanks to apt and its front-end, Synaptic. 
I'm using Synaptic 0.47 on Fedora Core 2 test1.

I was wondering about including a date column in the list widget that 
would tell the user the date a package was built. Unfortunately, I don't 
think this is an easy thing to do since apt, to my knowledge, doesn't 
provide date information about packages. why do you think this stat 
would be left out? Anyway, I think the build date would be a useful way 
to look at "Not Installed" packages to find the most recent additions. 
As soon as you update the available packages, the "New in Archive" list 
gets rewritten (which it should, of course). however, after several 
updates it's becomes impossible to remember what packages were recently 
added. Since the "Not Installed" list is probably the longest on most 
users' systems, it is the hardest to look through. Anyone else think 
this would be useful?

Regards,
   Scott