Just pin the dependencies and your mostly fine right?
Huh, I have never had this issue with apt (Debian/Ubuntu) but frequently with apk/Alpine: The package's latest version this week gets deleted next week.
not necessarily, eg snapshot.debian.org
> pinning on hashes is architecture dependent
can't you pin the multi-arch manifest instead?
I still like StableBuild for protection against package deletion, and mirroring non-pinnable deps