Re: How do I solve pinning issues - Was: jwm
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 10:12 +0000, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:37:10 +0100
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> To compile jwmtools it became a dependency hell for the dev packages. Is
> >> there a way to automatically upgarde/downgrade packages to solve this
> >> issue?
> >
> > Upgrade - yes. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' combined with appropriate
> > entries in /etc/apt/sources.list will happily upgrade the whole
> > installation to testing.
>
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" will not upgrade stable to testing if the
> pinning settings don't allow it, which AFAIR should be the case with
> Ralph's settings if they are as he posted them in an earlier thread.
>
> (One of the steps of the release notes always is to disable pinning
> when upgrading.)
IIUC forcing a downgrade doesn't work?
How stable is "Debian unstable"? Perhaps making a backup, disabling
pinning and dist-upgrading is the easiest solution, OTOH I would prefer
to stay with as much from "stable" as possible.
FWIW, I used Synaptic not apt. So if there would be a possibility to
downgrade, I then would use apt instead of Synaptic, assumed synaptic
should cause issues.
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