On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote:
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'.
this is an example where aptitude is superior to apt-get: with apt-get install (or dist-install), I went into some kind of infinite loop of dependencies, while "aptitude install ffmpeg=4:0.8-2~bpo60+1' worked. But then, what is the use of pinning to 1 the Unofficial Multimedia Packages ? It seems that if Marillat cheats about the version number, the solution is to get rid of the debian-multimedia.org repo. -- Pierre Frenkiel