Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Severity: wishlist I think a finer-grained ability in sources.list would be useful to many. I prefer to run `frozen', but there are some packages that I would like to take out of `unstable'. I don't want to have my sources.list point to unstable, because i don't want to inadvertently upgrade other software. I'd like a way to be able to specify "package foo and what it depends on may be taken from unstable, but everything else must come from frozen". I realize this is almost antithetical to the way things are done now, but perhaps apt could provide such capabilities on top of the infrastructure that exists, perhaps by keeping different packages files around and applying rules above those that happen now. In other words, the underlying layout of http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/ need not change---apt could provide the desired functionality on top. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux atheist 2.2.14 #8 Tue Jan 11 21:25:15 EST 2000 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-4 The GNU stdc++ library -- Bradley M. Kuhn - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn
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