Bug#160743: I want a very different autoclean feature

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Just to add a voice in opposition to automatic clean, or even automatic
autoclean:

What I'd like apt to do is keep pristine copies of all packages that
have been installed within the last N days.

That is, the package file would be kept until N days after the package
was uninstalled (e.g. upgraded).

That would give me N days to notice any problems and revert the upgrade,
without depending on an external web site to archive the package for
me.


I'd also like an option to automatically download and keep the source
package under the same conditions, for GPL compliance reasons.