Package: snapshot.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi,
this wishlist bug was made in the context of the development of debbisect: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/177/ Currently it is possible to pass an arbitrary timestamp of the form %Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ in a snapshot.d.o URL and one will still get some results. This is cool but it would be nice if there was a way to find out which snapshot timestamp one actually ended up using. Given two timestamps X and Y which are closer together than six hours, it is currently very hard to determine (one would have to download and compare Packages and Sources files) whether one is looking at the same snapshot or different snapshots. In the context of debbisect, knowing the precise timestamp one is currently investigating would help in determining which snapshot to investigate next. This wishlist bug could either be solved by - documenting how an arbitrary date is turned into a snapshot timestamp (this would probably require a machine readable list of all snapshot timestamps -- see #969603) or by - providing an API function which turns an arbitrary date into a snapshot timestamp Thanks! cheers, josch
