diff --git a/examples/debconf/Makefile b/examples/debconf/Makefile
index e0c136bcd..10d23adfe 100644
--- a/examples/debconf/Makefile
+++ b/examples/debconf/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,18 @@ recent: \
  dc26 \
  dc25 \
  dc24 \
+
+all: \
+ dc26 \
+ dc25 \
+ dc24 \
  dc23 \
+ dc22 \
+ dc21 \
+ dc20 \
+ dc19 \
+ dc18 \
+ dc17 \
 
 dc%:
 	git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse http://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/data/$@
diff --git a/examples/debconf/README.md b/examples/debconf/README.md
index 2bfa17edb..8822a36e9 100644
--- a/examples/debconf/README.md
+++ b/examples/debconf/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ DebConf does their accounting with Ledger.
 
 Eg: <https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/data/dc25/-/tree/main/budget>
 
-Multiple years are available, though I'm not sure where to browse them all.
-
 These repos are big; to clone just the accounting data for a few recent years, run `make` here.
+Or to clone all years (starting 2017), `make all`.
+
+Some years (eg 24 and 25) can be read by hledger with no changes needed;
+others may need some conversion, eg [amount expressions](https://hledger.org/ledger.html#amount-expressions).