Package: snapshot.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #650783 I was just about to report the same bug. First, comments on replies:
> It helps a little: multi-binary packages are easier to apt-get than wget > 3-4 files. Although, arguably not much easier. It’s better because you also have APT checking the Release file signature. It also makes apt use dependency resolution, which dpkg -i doesn’t do (apt install /path/to/*.deb is rather new). > add "deb ..." lines for a sources.list. They can be deduced from the > binary download urls by removing anything after the timestamp. No, they can’t, but it’s easy enough to scan, upon import, all Packages.gz and Sources.gz files to discover when a given file first occurred and then save *that* timestamp as an additional field next to each filename and generate the sources.list line from that. *This* would really make snapshot.d.o useful. Somewhat, just downloading .deb files from the link on snapshot.d.o feels like it could have some better way of ensuring that the .deb file I get is, indeed, the exact signed file from the archive. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unreleased APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)