Re: how to downgrade from testing to stable

[Hans-Georg Bork <hgb@quicknet.nl>]

Hi,
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:47:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> [...]
> Number 2 above is complicated because python will take with it 60-75
> other packages that depend upon it.  But if it were me that is
> probably what I would do.  Someone will hopefully mention how to do
> that without taking the dependencies with it.  Without knowing how to
> do that I would do it in steps.

if it's only to remove python without removing dependencies, dpkg
should be able able to do it if you set --force-depends so that all
errors about dependencies are set into warnings ... use this with caution!

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	hgb