> ... and hope that they don't patch the upstream source directly. The purpose is not necessarely to build every packages already uploaded into Debian :).
Just a few packages from testing/unstable in order to build backports on the current stable or exceptionally oldstable. Maybe a solution would be to use snapshot in order to retrive the source packages. Do we have a cli-tool whcih is an equivalent of apt source blabla=version, but connected by default to snapshot ? Fred