Re: two additional bits of data

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:58, seth vidal wrote:
> Hey,
>  two things I just thought of might be useful for generic package
> information:
> 
> buildtime - when this package was built
> filetimestamp - a timestamp for the file when the metadata was
> generated.
> 
> I know the latter is do-able for all packages. Is the latter do-able for
> deb?

The former, you mean?

Build timestamps aren't referenced explicitly in debs, but all debs are
required to have a changelog with change dates in standardized format.

If I were required to provide buildtime for debs, I'd use the changelog
date.