The feature requested in this bug would be useful to me to enable nicer support of old releases which have moved to archive.debian.org. For example, I currently have approx instances which need to supply etch lenny and squeeze.
I have resorted to configuring them like this: debian http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian debian-security http://security.debian.org/debian-security debian-archive http://archive.debian.org/debian debian-security-archive http://archive.debian.org/debian-security And then symlinking debian-archive to debian within the cache directory, and putting up with the need to propagate this special-casing in the clients' source.lists.
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