On 10/18/2007 10:47 PM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
[...] ...except, why were testing packages favored over stable? That is interesting but not crucial to answer. [...]
By default, apt-get wants to install later versions of packages, so if it sees both libc6 2.6.1 and libc6 2.3.6, apt-get will prefer the later version, 2.6.1.
That's why managing the sources.list is so important. Sources.list controls what apt-get sees.