Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal Downgrades are not mentioned at all in Section "Costs in the interactive dependency resolver" of the aptitude manual. Since they are not supported by Debian, one has the impression that they cannot be proposed, while they can be proposed in practice.
In particular, it should be documented where they appear in Table 2.2 on cost levels. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) aptitude-doc-en depends on no packages. aptitude-doc-en recommends no packages. Versions of packages aptitude-doc-en suggests: ii aptitude 0.7.8-1 -- no debconf information