Re: Recreating history of a package

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Subject: Re: Recreating history of a package
From: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 18:32:02 +0100
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Am 06.02.19 um 17:59 schrieb Carsten Leonhardt:
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> There are utilities that will download all revisions of a particular
>> package from snapshot.d.o and make them into a combined history.
> 
> Would you care to name those you know of? I have been searching for
> something like that but I didn't find anything useful.

I know of at least git-buildpackage will do this with the option
'--import-dscs' by importing all available versions from the Debian
archives.

I assume Ian's tool can do something similar.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert

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