Comment 14 for bug 54652

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 54652] Re: Add a "workaround" field to bug

I'm afraid I do not have the time to argue further about most of this;
sorry. I'll respond to this part:

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:53:44PM -0000, André Pirard wrote:
> > However, it's possible to download old versions from
> > launchpad.net.
> Interesting hidden info. Could you be specific and show how to to download, for example, the previous or 3-numbers-old version of Ubuntu Firefox? Or of any package.

Using a web browser, start here and follow links:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+publishinghistory

More programmatically, this is all available via the Launchpad API -
binary packages can be fetched from binary_package_publishing_history
objects:

  https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib