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Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not



Pierre Frenkiel:
> 
>    ffmpeg:
>      Installed: 5:0.7.11-0.1
>      Candidate: 5:0.7.11-0.1
>      Version table:
>     *** 5:0.7.11-0.1 0
>              1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
>            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>         4:0.8-2~bpo60+1 0
>            100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
>         4:0.7.2-1~bpo60+1 0
>            100 http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
>         4:0.5.6-3 0
>            500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
>            500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
> 
> So, it seems that apt-get is not aware that 4:0.8 is newer than 5:0.7
> idem with "aptitude full-upgrade"

The "epoch" (the version number prefix, before the ':') is used to
explicitly enforce this. 4:x is always older than 5:y. Christian
Marillat does this on purpose. I don't know his reasons.

In order to "downgrade" from 5:0.7.11-0.1 to 4:0.8-2~bpo60+1 you need to
tun 'apt-get install ffmpeg=4:0.8-2~bpo60+1'.

J.
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