On 2018-01-25 21:20:23 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > You can use apt or aptitude for packages in experimental and I see no > reason against doing that. You do not even need to pin experimental. > Packages from experimental are automatically assigned priority 1, except > upgrades for packages that you installed from experimental. > > That means you can add experimental to your sources.list and apt will > not automatically upgrade your packages from testing/sid to the versions > from experimental. But when you manually select a version from > experimental (using '-t experimantal'), apt will automatically upgrade > to newer versions available from experimental. And when testing/sid > contains a newer version, the one from experimental will be replaced by > that one.
With aptitude, this is not true. See the discussions at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795228 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823928 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)