Bug#907723: link package versions on security-tracker to source packages
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> when working for the LTS team, I regularly need to download source packages
> from the LTS version of Debian. My development machine normally runs a newer
> Debian version, having deb-src URLs for Debian LTS in sources.list is
> possible but not a good option (for me) as it increases latency for apt
> update.
I would suggest you use either apt-venv or chdist (from devscripts) to
enable you to have the apt metadata for LTS and stable releases so
that you can easily download the source using apt. I do this and have
a cron job to automatically run apt update for each chdist.
> So, I always go to [1] with my web browser, copy the URL of the .dsc file
> and then dget that .dsc file.
This misses out verifying apt signatures.
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bye,
pabs
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