Re: finding previous package version

[Aves <aves@dichotomies.fr>]

I think you can do it by editing your preferences (man apt_preferences)

You'll basically have to inform the package name, the version you wish to get back and the most delicate to set : the priority.

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:52 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote:
> I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a
> certain package to the previous version.  Is there some way to get my
> hands on that previous version?
>
> Specifically, the upgrade brought up debian bug #665004, which made my
> touchpad scrolling stop working right.  The bug report indicates the
> culprit is the upgrade of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from version
> 1.5.0-2 to 1.5.99.901-1, and that downgrading fixes it.  But I don't
> know where to find the older package.  The other distributions have an
> even older version (1.4.x), which is maybe too old.
>
> -David

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Regards,

Aves

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