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Re: Question re Debian versions



Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net> writes:

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:35, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
>
>> > I'm not sure that "less stable" is the right term, but "less usable"
>> > almost certainly is.
>>
>> backports.org is your friend.
>
> Here's a question for the more experienced folks:  is "downgrading" from 
> unstable to stable as easy as upgrading is?  

No, downgrades are not supported at all.  You can force downgrades, but
the package maintainer scripts are not generally written to handle
downgrades.  If you downgrade a whole distribution, things *will* break.

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