Hello Sandro,
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:40:27PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 19:46, Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de> wrote:
> > Hello Sandro,
> > I use apt-proxy extensively.
> 
> and you can keep working with it as long as it still works for you.
> the package was removed from Debian since ~3 months, so I closed his
> bugs, since no-one will look at them (else the package would have been
> still in Debian)

First of all, thanks for taking care of cleaning up. Of course I can
keep working on it, but when security support for lenny is over, I
will have to switch. 

> > What is the replacement and upgrade path?
> 
> even no-one? or you can use some other alternatives: launch "apt-cache
> search $keywords" where $k can be something like "debian package
> proxy" (i found apt-cacher, but I don't use it so I don't know if to
> suggest it or not).

Well, I would have expected that at least for infrastructure tools
some upgrade path is provided. I know how to search for packages, but
of course I don't know how good the alternatives are. I am a (fairly)
happy user of apt-proxy (several architectures, currently 25 GB in the
proxy) and I would like to avoid the work of converting everything
over (several machines, I know other installations with dozenz of
machines) just to find out that the chosen alternative is going away
during the sequeez+1 cycle.

> Anyhow, I'm not the former maintainer nor even an apt-proxy user, so
> I'm not qualified to answer such questions.

Well, I accept that but the one removing apt-proxy might have
considered this. I guess the maintainer is MIA? 

Greetings

         Helge
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