Re: freemind

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

> Mark Grieveson wrote:
>
> > Hello.  A while back I installed Freemind 0.8.0, and it works fine.  
> > I run Sarge. . .
> > Synaptic, and apt, however, a month later, have suddenly decided they 
> > don't like Freemind 0.8.0.  I now get this very strange message when 
> > I attempt to do a dist-upgrade:
> >
> > freemind will be downgraded . . .
> >
> > "downgraded"?  Since when does apt downgrade programs?  What is 
> > causing this?  Can I somehow tell my computer to stop this?  I would 
> > like to be able to check for upgrades without my computer deciding to 
> > downgrade and delete stuff.
> Hi,
>
> what does "apt-cache policy freemind" (on the console) tell you?
>
> Cheers, Eric 

Hi.  This is what "apt-cache policy freemind" says:

debian:/home/mark# apt-cache policy freemind
freemind:
 Installed: 0.8.0+01-4
 Candidate: 0.7.1-6
 Version Table:
*** 0.8.0+01-4 0
         9 http://eric.lavar.de experimental/ Packages
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    0.8.0-1 0
         9 http://eric.lavar.de experimental/ Packages
    0.7.1-6 0
      1001 ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sarge/contrib Packages

Mark