Rick Macdonald wrote: > I'm going to pose my question here at the top in case it can be answered > without wading through all the details that follow: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from > stable as the stable versions become newer than the unstable packages > that I currently have installed? Or might I hit some dependency problems > along the way? Should I instead do the downgrades now by pinning stable > to priority 1001 (with I'm guessing is a one-time thing to do, and then > remove the pinning)? ...
you can look at this using synaptic and see what is grouped where by origin or status. in the case where you've removed sources.list entries things may appear as obsolete. anyways, no, some of those packages may never be updated to newer versions for all sorts of reasons (usually a bug prevents the package from getting into testing). if the list is limited and you don't have a lot of data at risk for destruction or re-entry you can downgrade, but i usually purge and reinstall if i can instead. songbird
