Comment 13 for bug 316858

> The overwhelming majority of people don't need old versions floating about in their PPAs, especially when it eats their quota.

So if I understand correctly, the old versions are kept around forever in the Librarian, but the quota only applies to the files referenced by the archive? That seems kind of odd. They're still costing us disk space, so I think we should certainly make them accessible.

It's true that if the files are still in the librarian they can be installed by hand, but this is a bit unfriendly for people used to using apt, particularly if eg you need to install multiple packages.

@cprov: I think you're correct. But anyhow, regardless of the default behaviour, keeping the old versions accessible lets people force installation or pin a particular version through the apt interface.

@stub: Yes, different tools behave differently. ;-)

For the specific case of bzr I'd like to work out what people use from bzrtools and merge it into bzr core.