On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2020 11:41:04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Why in the name of all that is unholy did you install ONE HUNDRED > > SEVENTY-ONE backported packages?!? > > > > What were you THINKING? > Automatic install by synaptic as they became available over the years.
That's not how backports are intended to WORK. Every one is a special snowflake. You have to type "-t stretch-backports" (or analogous repository selection option) on your command in order to get them. If synaptic is pulling in *-backports without you manually DOING something to select the backport over the standard version, then synaptic is broken. Broken-er. More broken-er.