I'm trying really, really, really hard to keep my system mostly within stable, but I must be doing something completely wrong, because at the moment my system is infested with > 100 packages that are not from stable, and that I am 100000% certain I did not explicitly install. These uninvited packages are causing me a lot of headaches.
Is there some way, short of reinstalling my whole system from scratch, to downgrade all these packages to stable? I welcome any suggestions, kj PS1: I know that, in principle, I can downgrade individual packages by installing the specific version, but I'm talking about ~140 packages here, and it would be a nightmare to determine the right version for each one in order to reinstall it. PS2: BTW, I assume that these non-stable packages come from wheezy-backports, since this is the only non-stable source I have in my sources.list, but when I run apt-cache list on any of them, the output does not tell me the release of the installed version; for example (`sudo` is one of the non-stable packages that are currently in my system, and that I know, for sure, that I did not explicitly install): $ apt-cache policy sudo sudo: Installed: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Candidate: 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 Version table: *** 1.8.5p2-1+nmu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 0 500 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cafvqaj5n8ry9dadwfipkkvw01rvdw9jovagiqhezfp9o17+...@mail.gmail.com