Repository and verification that pkg is new despite its version

Software PureOS
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Hi,
I have a question about apt and pureos repo. Today I updated and the only package downloaded was

pureos-archive-keyring-2024.04.0
updating
pureos-archive-keyring-2021.x.x

The version suggests could be an older package (that I do not have); so just to make sure I am not belatedly updating this package for some reason, is there a way to know the date the package was last updated / added to the repo?

I already have looked at the packages.xz list from ‘main-all’; it’s in there, but no dates to support this is a recent addition to the repo (and to reassure that I have not been missing this pkg for a year). :roll_eyes:

Thanks.

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One thing you can do is look in the log files in the /var/log/apt/ directory. There you can see what apt has been doing, which packages have been added, updated, or removed, and you can see the time when it happened.

Note however that this tells you what apt has been doing on your own computer, it does not tell you a history of the remote repo (or maybe it does in a way, but only indirectly, if you have done “apt update && apt upgrade” very often).

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