On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:33:28PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 07:31:08AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > For non actively maintained packages on could check them into Git > > > oneself and then start a history from there, and potentially update the > > > package. > > > > > I have had good results with snapshot.debian.org. On a few occasions, > > simply downloading each successive version from snapshot.debian.org and > > then using something like 'gbp import-dscs *.dsc' gives more than > > sufficient version history. Granted, that has limitations, but it is > > available right now. > gbp import-dscs --debsnap > The only thing I don't like about the debsnap option is that it does not seem to have a way to limit the number of snapshots that are retrieved or to specify the versions of interest. For instance, if I only want to see the versions of a package that constitute stable security updates, I might do something like this:
debsnap -v -d . -f foobar --first 1.2-3 --last 1.2-3+deb9u5 Then: gbp import-dscs *.dsc If the --debsnap option to import-dscs has that capability then it must not be documented. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
