* Marc Haber:

> I want to check whether a given package has migrated from unstable to
> testing in a cron job, and this cron job should be able to run on a
> host that doesn't have a local archive.

With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive
metadata.  AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space
consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either.


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