I missed the "thanks to Debian" bit, I was seeing balloons on top of bug reports and getting irritated by them whilst trying to workaround a bug in Postgres that day.

Today however I needed some old packages, we have Squid 2.7STABLE6.1 installed on a i386 box, and I need to migrate this to amd64 and didn't want to brave the updates needed to do the same with current Debian Squeeze version of same. With the help of the search box on snapshot.debian.org I picked up exactly the same releases for amd64 as the deb files I have archived locally for i386, and was able to install the hideously hacked about Squid proxy config we use, which will last us until things quieten down and I can test using Debian Squeeze itself for the same task, thus gaining all those good things like security team support.

So today I'd like to express my gratitude to the Debian developers involved with Squid, Snapshot.debian.org, Steve and the folks here who told me about snapshot and so much more, and all those contributors to Debian who make my life so much simpler than with that GNU/Linux distro that I used before.

Thanks!