On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 20:59, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to your 'apt policy' you also had repositories configured for
> Skype and Docker. Did you remove those as well?

They remain, just were in their own files.

>
> > For my apt preferences I had:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: 650
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=unstable
> > Pin-Priority: 600
> >
> > To be honest back in the day when I did that, I struggled to really
> > understand it. My intention was to have the system take packages from
> > unstable and if a package is not available there then from testing.
> > Does it even do that?
>
> It does the exact opposite, because in your configuration testing has
> higher priority.
>
> For what you wrote above you don't need any pinning, just have both
> unstable and testing your sources.list.

Great, thank you very much for clearing this up for me! Problems solved!

Best regards,
Marty

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