On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:33:25PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Often, I wish I could extract certain information
> out of the package database, such as the size,
> age, and distribution the package came from. 
...
Using APT in woody,

 $ apt-cache show package-name
 $ apt-cache policy package-name
 $ apt-cache showpkg package-name

Age in date scale, I do not know ;-(

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