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Re: An old idea, brought back to life



Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> What we don't have is some way to revoke that decision, say "Okay, that
> was fun, but I want to go back to frozen. Buggy junk", and downgrade
> the packages you just installed to ones that work

A major problem is that dpkg does not support this currently: it does
not check if all dependencies are still met if a package is downgraded.

> The new Apt UI may have some support for this, but I'm not sure. (I'm
> not quite sure what the UI-doc means when it discusses this functionality)

What exactly don't you understand? Perhaps I can clear it up..

Wichert.

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