Bug#650783: snapshot.debian.org: please list "deb ..." lines for sources.list on http://snapshot.d.o/package/$package/$version/

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

Helmut Grohne schrieb am Freitag, dem 02. Dezember 2011:

> Package: snapshot.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be nice if the pages for individual package versions
> http://snapshot.d.o/package/$package/$version/ would also list easy to
> add "deb ..." lines for a sources.list. They can be deduced from the
> binary download urls by removing anything after the timestamp.
> 
> For example:
> 
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110623T151535Z/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_2.0.13-1.1_amd64.deb
> 
> ->
> 
> deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110623T151535Z/ sid main

Only not really in a generic way, as I don't know which suite within an
archive the package appears in, or how to construct sources list entries
for the suites of an archive (debian, debian-ports, etc.) in the first
place.

Do you have any idea on how to solve this in a generic and sane way?

Cheers,
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