On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > I consider binary packages as extrem useful to check for dependency > changes etc,
That can be done by having an archive of packages files alone. > or for fixing issues in some core packages where you need to take an > older version for building a newer one. Would one really do that after 6 months, the current on-and-about keeping time for .deb's on ftp-master & merkel? I seriously doubt that -- for past stable releases and revisions, ok, but for unstable/testing? Those are by definition development branches, and older .deb's loose relevance after some time, nobody has them anymore, and whatever effect they had is no longer supported anyway in not a single way. For source packages that's different indeed, but a source only snapshot.d.o would at this moment be about 100GB, which is *much* better handleble, and is viable for some .d.o machine to provide as 'debian-snapshot' and that will probably get at least a few mirrors without any Debian expenses spend on it. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]