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+.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
+.TH DEBSNAP 1 "July 3, 2010" "Debian devscripts" "DebSnap User Manual"
+.SH NAME
+debsnap \- retrieve old snapshots of Debian packages
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B debsnap
+.RI [ options ] " package " [ version ]
+
+.B debsnap
+.RB [ -h " | " \-\-help ] " " [ \-\-version ]
+
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBdebsnap\fP is a tool to help with retrieving snapshots of old packages from
+a daily archive repository.
+
+The only publicly available snapshot archive is currently located at
+\fIhttps://snapshot.debian.org\fP
+
+By default, debsnap will download all the available versions for \fIpackage\fP
+that are found in the snapshot archive.  If a \fIversion\fP is specified, only
+that particular version will be downloaded, if available.
+
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+The following options are available:
+
+.TP
+.BI -d " destination\fR,\fP " \-\-destdir " destination"
+Directory to place retrieved packages.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-f ", " \-\-force
+Force writing into an existing \fIdestination\fP.  By default \fBdebsnap\fP will
+insist the destination directory does not exist yet unless it is explicitly
+specified to be '\fB.\fR' (the current working directory).  This is to avoid files
+being accidentally overwritten by what is fetched from the archive and to
+provide a guarantee for other scripts that only the files fetched will be
+present there upon completion.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose
+Report on the \fBdebsnap\fP configuration being used and progress during the
+download operation.  Please always use this option when reporting bugs.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-l ", " \-\-list
+Don't download but just list versions.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-\-binary
+Download binary packages instead of source packages.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-a ", " \-\-architecture
+Specify architecture of downloaded binary packages. Implies \fB\-\-binary\fP.
+This can be given multiple times in order to download binary packages for
+multiple architectures.
+
+.TP
+.B \-\-first
+Specify the minimum version of a package which will be downloaded.  Any
+versions which compare larger than this, according to \fBdpkg\fP, will be
+considered for download.  May be used in combination with \fB\-\-last\fP.
+
+.TP
+.B \-\-last
+Specify the maximum version of a package which will be downloaded.  Any package
+versions which compare less than this, according to \fBdpkg\fP, will be
+considered for download.  May be used in combination with \fB\-\-first\fP.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-h ", " \-\-help
+Show a summary of these options.
+
+.TP
+.B \-\-version
+Show the version of \fBdebsnap\fP.
+
+
+.SH CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
+\fBdebsnap\fP may also be configured through the use of the following options
+in the devscripts configuration files:
+
+.TP
+.B DEBSNAP_VERBOSE
+Same as the command line option \fB\-\-verbose\fP.  Set to \fIyes\fP to enable.
+
+.TP
+.B DEBSNAP_DESTDIR
+Set a default path for the destination directory.  If unset
+\fI./source\-<package_name>\fP will be used.  The command line option
+\fB\-\-destdir\fP will override this.
+
+.TP
+.B DEBSNAP_BASE_URL
+The base url for the snapshots archive.
+
+If unset this defaults to \fIhttps://snapshot.debian.org\fP
+
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+\fBdebsnap\fP will return an exit status of 0 if all operations succeeded,
+1 if a fatal error occurred, and 2 if some packages failed to be downloaded
+but operations otherwise succeeded as expected.  In some cases packages may
+fail to be downloaded because they are no longer available on the snapshot
+mirror, so any caller should expect this may occur in normal use.
+
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+.BR "debsnap -a amd64 xterm 256-1"
+Download the binary package of a specific xterm version for amd64 architecture.
+.TP
+.BR "debsnap -a armel xterm"
+Download binary packages for all versions of xterm for armel architecture.
+.TP
+.BR "debsnap --binary xterm 256-1"
+Download binary packages for a specific xterm version but for all architectures.
+.TP
+.BR "debsnap --binary xterm"
+Download binary packages for all versions of xterm for all architectures.
+.TP
+.BR "debsnap -v --first 347-1 --last 348-2 xterm"
+Download source packages for local architecture of xterm, between 347-1 and
+348-2 revisions, inclusive, showing the progress when doing it.
+.TP
+.BR "aptitude search '~i' -F '%p %V' | while read pkg ver; do debsnap -a $(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH) -a all $pkg $ver; done" 
+Download binary packages of all packages that are installed on the system.
+
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I /etc/devscripts.conf
+Global devscripts configuration options.  Will override hardcoded defaults.
+.TP
+.I ~/.devscripts
+Per\-user configuration options.  Will override any global configuration.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR devscripts (1),
+.BR devscripts.conf (5),
+.BR git-debimport (1)
+
+.SH AUTHORS
+David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
+
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2010 David Paleino
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
+the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option)
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can
+be found in \fI/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\fP.
+
+.SH BUGS
+.SS Reporting bugs
+The program is part of the devscripts package.  Please report bugs using
+`\fBreportbug devscripts\fP`
+