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Re: cahnging debian version



michael@etalon.net writes:

> Quoting Alan Ianson <agianson@shaw.ca>:
>
>>>> > security team.
>>>
>>> Are you sure i cannot go back to stable ?
>>
>> I don't think so, at least not without reinstalling. You can upgrade
> from
>> Woody (old stable) to sarge (current stable) or from stable to testing
> or
>> unstable. But there is no easy way to downgrade.
>>
>
> Yes, you can downgrade. You use the pinning fuction of apt to set
> negative
> pin numbers on packages.
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html

It's also completely unsupported and fairly likely to break your
system...

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