Package: cupt
Version: 2.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Several Windows package managers (Secunia, Glary Utils, etc.) can sort
installed programs by install date. The feature is surprisingly
useful, for example, when one forgets the name of a recently installed
package or program.
Since 'dpkg' doesn't store the install date, Debian lacks a simple sort
by install date function. (There are kludges, like parsing logfiles,
but the logs only go back so far.)
Possible remedy:
Add an install date field to the 'cupt' installed package database.
Note: Why 'cupt' and not 'dpkg'? Ideally 'dpkg' ought to store the
installation date, but a review of the 'dpkg' bug list shows its
cautious maintainers can be slow to change things:
# Count 'dpkg' bugs open. At present there's more than three hundred.
% wget -O -
'http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archived=no&pkg=dpkg&repeatmerged=yes'
2> /dev/null | html2text | sed -n '/\* #/{s/.*#\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p}' | sort -u |
wc -l
334
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cupt depends on:
ii libboost-program-options1.46.1 1.46.1-7
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii libcupt2-0 2.2.2
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-4
ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-4
cupt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cupt suggests:
ii libreadline6 6.2-7
ii sensible-utils 0.0.6
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