Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 27 May 2024 at 14:02:47 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin
> >> 
> >> I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll
> >> need things like
> >> 
> >>     apt install libc-bin/bookworm
> >
> > To install a single backported (or other release) package, 
> > apt-get install packagename/releasename
> >
> > and to install a backported package plus dependencies which
> > are also from that specific release, use 
> > apt-get -t releasename packagename
> 
> But that's not the whole story of what `-t` does since the above does
> not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages
> resulted in `apt` saying "<blabla> is already the newest version".

Neither syntax will specify a newer version for plain "install"
to install or upgrade.

Cheers,
David.