kuLa wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > It would be great if you would say why you would want different > > versions in the same distribution track? I am sure it is useful but I > > can't think of why at this moment. So I haven't ever thought of that > > as a limitation but rather a feature. > > well, in my case I must to be able to downgrade any package at any time > to any previous version. Ah. Okay. Not a typical requirement. But certainly a valid one. Thanks for sharing that information. > > This is just like the official Debian repositories. > > Not exactly, as d.o is keeping all previous package versions if you need > them. If version you'e loonking for is not in main stream repo you can > always try snapshot.d.o Actually for many years debian.org did not maintain the past history. That was on snapshot.debian.net. Note the .net not .org. It was a 3rd party effort. But it is a huge amount of data and a large task. And there was some data loss due to server problems. But it was very useful. Eventually the functionality was moved to the official debian.org servers. So now it is a part of Debian but previously it was not. Bob
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