Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,
> > except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection
> > of stable and unstable would just be the same as unstable anyway. Right?
> 
> For the most part, correct.

One last clarification.

You stressed that one should tell dselect (apt) about stable first, then
unstable. Does this indicate that in fact dselect doesn't always present
the _newest_ version, it presents the last occurrence found?

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...RickM...