Simon Hobson wrote on 23/02/16 18:40:
Brad Campbell <lists2...@fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

But then I still have Squeeze and Lenny systems running (they
aren't broken ...) - don't think I have anything older than that
!


I just bumped up against a problem with a squeeze system. It's ppc,
and everyone has dropped the non-x86/x64 archives. That made it
hard to install tcpdump to do some investigative work.

Interestingly the package files are still all present, so after an
apt-get update ; apt-get install foo I just put the package names
it can't download into google and they turn up in odd corners of
the net.

Yes that's a problem. It would be nice if, instead of just dropping
everything, they kept a snapshot of the latest versions for that.

Doesn't snapshot.debian.org keep up until the last released versions of packages, including for architectures no longer supported? (Admittedly one would need to use packages.debian.org to find out what was the last supported version of a package for a different architecture).

Arthur.

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