Create deb repository with several versions of the same package

As far as I understand, mini-dinstall requires debian .changes files when adding packages. As I only had .deb files available I found that aptly supports multiple versions as well.

Another more light-weight option is freight which is a set of shell scripts for maintaining a debian repository. I have now (2017) been using freight for three years to maintain a small but actively updated repository, with good results. One key feature was the ability to keep multiple versions of a package.

Edit: Updated link to new freight repo as the previous had not been updated since 2014.

The solution is to use mini-dinstall for managin deb repos. It does not delete previous version of the package from the repository.

I heard good things about an alternative, freight:

https://github.com/rcrowley/freight

HTH, mistige