On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Russel Winder wrote: > > > Try this: > > > > https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/firehol/ > > Thanks for the pointer. I run Approx, so I have the history of > packages here anyway. The issue is whether I have to delve into it > for manual installation, or whether the Debian Sid package can be > rescinded. I suspect not, I think Debian is "the only direction is > forward" which is fair enough.
That's my experience. > It sounds like usrmerge is becoming a Debian standard, so I might > try it on that one machine. Heads up. A move like that might break other packages too. The other thing you might want to careful with is what I wrote in bug #912624: > Repeating the upgrade process I found out that /etc/firehol/firehol.conf > is _forcebly_ overwritten. So, that's one bug: > > Installing new version of config file /etc/firehol/firehol.conf ... > > I'm asked if I want to keep /etc/default/firehol, though. -- Cristian
