On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:18:36 Colin Watson wrote: > > As far as I know, I'm afraid, previous versions haven't been kept until > very recently. With the advent of package pools, previous versions of > packages are now kept around for a while in debian/pool on Debian > mirrors, although I assume that they're eventually deleted to save disk > space.
Thanks Colin, In my usual manner I found an explanation of package pools the following day. Now all I need to do is persuade the maintainer to put the old version in! :) Andy