Bug#562823: apt: please support searching for packages on snapshot.d.o

[Ron <ron@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.24
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

This is a little premature, since s.d.o isn't officially up yet,
but here's a real use case where this would have been cool (:

On dev boxes running unstable, sometimes you just want to pull in
an extra package, without updating the whole machine.  In that case
sometimes "apt-get install foo" will fail, because either foo or
one of its deps is no longer available for download in the pool
with the expected version.

They are however available at s.d.o.  So it would be cool if apt
looked there (or could be told to) automatically if you have a
stale packages list.

This might still need some work on s.d.o, but it seemed worth
tossing the idea out in case people have time to look into it
before I do.

Cheers,
Ron