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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