Hi all, I recently decided to migrate my Debian system away from deb-multimedia.org, where official packages exist. I used apt preferences to help me downgrade packages from deb-multimedia back to Debian testing, where an alternative version from testing exists. However, I would expectthat most users would not have the patience to do this via apt preferences,and if there is an easier way, I was not aware of it.
AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: 1001With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to official ones. At least it did in my case.
For me, finding out the correct preference setting was the hardest part here :)
-- With best regards, Vitaliy Filippov