Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>]

On 5/27/24 20:02, 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".

Sometimes '-t' works for me, and does what I expect, and sometimes
it doesn't.  So I generelly use now the explicit version:

apt install libc-bin=2.36-9+deb12u7

  Detlef