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Re: pidgin-data 2.6.3-1~bpo50+1 brakes pidgin



On Sat October 31 2009, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 15:02:02, Alexander Wirt a écrit :
> > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> > > Package: *
> > > Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> > > Pin-Priority: 1000
> >
> > You lose.
>
> Prefering the backports should not cause this trouble. You can also
> face the same situation when using a single distribution, say sid,
> and pidgin is partly uploaded..
>
>
> Romain

It seems to me that if you "prefer" backports in this manner, you could 
get backports for all packages installed on your system that were 
available in the backports repository, and that very well may not be 
what you want. 

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