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Bug#579530: marked as done (snapshot.debian.org: Please provide a package-centric date-transversal pseudo-archive)

Your message dated Thu, 13 May 2010 14:55:39 +0200
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regarding snapshot.debian.org: Please provide a package-centric date-transversal pseudo-archive
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Package: snapshot.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

I would really appreciate to benefit from a "package-centric pseudo-archive",
as snapshot.debian.net did provide:

	deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive pool <src_package>

With that you'd get _all_ the versions for that particular package, directly
included in {aptitude,apt-get,apt-cache,cupt,…}.

Unfortunately I have no time to get this implemented. 

Cheers,

OdyX

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Didier Raboud wrote:

> Package: snapshot.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would really appreciate to benefit from a "package-centric pseudo-archive",
> as snapshot.debian.net did provide:
> 
> 	deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive pool <src_package>
> 
> With that you'd get _all_ the versions for that particular package, directly
> included in {aptitude,apt-get,apt-cache,cupt,...}.

I don't see this getting done in snapshot any time soon, if ever.

Part of the problem is that having just the packages there won't do much
good, you'd also need all the dependencies.  That would require an
understanding of what a package is much more deeply than what snapshot
currently has or than I ever wanted it to have.

I expect that extra helper tools will solve the specific use case just
fine.  These tools use the machine readable interface to extract what
information snapshot offers and then can help you download sources
and/or binaries.  Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda) has a prototype of that
somewhere, but I don't know the current state all that well.

Thus, I'm closing the bug report.

Cheers,
weasel
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