astmanproxy and package remove

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:03:28AM +0200, Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1. When checking installed packages on a Etch running system (dpkg
> --get-selections or apt-cache search astmanproxy), I can see an astmanproxy
> package.
> 
> Now, on another system, I can't find astmanproxy anymore :
> http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=astmanproxy
> 
> Is it normal ?

I don't think it was ever officially packaged. I made a simple package
of it long ago. But it seemed like an unmaintained program and I didn't
quite follow up.

Current upstream is http://github.com/davetroy/astmanproxy
I don't see any tags there. I think it was adapted to the manager
interface changes of 1.6, but I'm not sure.

> 
> 2. For running systems maintenance, I'm assuming I just have to save the
> list of installed packages as using debian repositories and apt-get, I'm
> supposing I will always be able to re-install all packages.
> Is it possible that a published package is removed (or renamed) from debian
> repositories so that I won't be able to re-install this removed package
> anymore just using this installed package list ?

Aparantly they were never there.

> 
> If positive, what's the recommended process to remain certain I can
> re-install from scratch at any time ?

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