On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 10:12 +0000, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:37:10 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > >> > >> To compile jwmtools it became a dependency hell for the dev packages. Is > >> there a way to automatically upgarde/downgrade packages to solve this > >> issue? > > > > Upgrade - yes. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' combined with appropriate > > entries in /etc/apt/sources.list will happily upgrade the whole > > installation to testing. > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" will not upgrade stable to testing if the > pinning settings don't allow it, which AFAIR should be the case with > Ralph's settings if they are as he posted them in an earlier thread. > > (One of the steps of the release notes always is to disable pinning > when upgrading.)
IIUC forcing a downgrade doesn't work? How stable is "Debian unstable"? Perhaps making a backup, disabling pinning and dist-upgrading is the easiest solution, OTOH I would prefer to stay with as much from "stable" as possible. FWIW, I used Synaptic not apt. So if there would be a possibility to downgrade, I then would use apt instead of Synaptic, assumed synaptic should cause issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388140110.655.63.camel@archlinux
