On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > when working for the LTS team, I regularly need to download source packages > from the LTS version of Debian. My development machine normally runs a newer > Debian version, having deb-src URLs for Debian LTS in sources.list is > possible but not a good option (for me) as it increases latency for apt > update.
I would suggest you use either apt-venv or chdist (from devscripts) to enable you to have the apt metadata for LTS and stable releases so that you can easily download the source using apt. I do this and have a cron job to automatically run apt update for each chdist. > So, I always go to [1] with my web browser, copy the URL of the .dsc file > and then dget that .dsc file. This misses out verifying apt signatures. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise