I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie),
stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and
have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch
and I revert to the stable version of the package until the bug gets
worked out. I also, on occasion, use a more advanced version of the
package and get it from sid (with a careful look at the proposed changes
to the system when doing so). I have set synaptic to prefer the Stretch
distribution. However, when I reload, and tell synaptic to mark all
upgrades, it marks upgrades which it will pull from sid. Is there a way
to tell synaptic to ignore those upgrades, while allowing me to manually
install them should I wish to do so? I had thought that telling
synaptic to prefer the Stretch distribution would have handled that, but
I guess not. I figure I'm just missing something.
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