Bug#743282: ITP: apt-get-snapshot -- Download a specific package version from snapshot.debian.org

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Dimitri,

On  Di 01 Apr 2014 12:43:56 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:

> On 1 April 2014 11:38, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
> >
> > * Package name    : apt-get-snapshot
> >   Version         : 1.1
> >   Upstream Author : Leandro Lisboa Penz <lpenz@lpenz.org>
> > * URL             : https://github.com/lpenz/apt-get-snapshot
> > * License         : BSD
> >   Programming Lang: Python
> >   Description     : Download a specific package version from  
> > snapshot.debian.org
> >
> >  apt-get-snapshot is a command-line tool that downloads a specific  
> > version of
> >  a debian package from snapshot.debian.org.
> >  .
> >  When using debian testing, it is not trivial to get the previous  
> > version of a
> >  package after it is upgraded. snapshot.debian.org is the source to  
> > go for these
> >  cases, but it has only a web interface. apt-get-snapshot navigates that web
> >  interface and fetches the desired package.
>
> Does it do GPG verification against the Debian Archive Key of the
> Releases/Packages which includes the matching checksum binary package?

No, it does not do that, yet. It is quite a young project and I am  
currently filing several wishlist bugs against upstream.

I have added your comment as another wishlist request [1]. Maybe you  
have time and priority to comment on that more explicitly in that  
issue report on gh.

Thanks,
Mike

[1] https://github.com/lpenz/apt-get-snapshot/issues/4
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