Package: apt Version: 0.5.5.1 Severity: normal Hi !
I struggled with apt for so many times, when i tried to downgrade a paket - so now I decided to write a report. Apt-get IMHO is the most advanced package-system for unix-environments, and I liked and used it for years.....this means that you did a good :-)) But there is one thing which is quite suboptimal - a example: I decided to upgrade the xfree-stuff of my system - and I do a regular upgrade of this software. Now I discover that this xfree-release contains a a bug which makes my system unusable. Now it would be better to downgrade that package, to get a working system. But how can i downgrade a package without uninstalling it ? A "apt-get install <mypackage> --target-release <oldversion>" will not help - i get the answer that the package is still up2date. My first intension is now to get the package manually, and to install this package. But this is not easy erverytime - because if that xfree-stuff is defined as a dependency of other packages (i.e. window-managers) - this is very unconfortable. I don't know if "dpkg --force-downgrade" is a solution of this problem, but I often purged that paket, and installed the roght release. An option to do get a certain release by resolving the dependencies automatically, would be very cool :-) If this is not easy to implement, or if this is not conform with the design of apt - it would be very useful to offer a solution to this problem in the manpage. Best regards Marc Schoechlin -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dragan 2.4.20 #1 Son Dez 22 18:54:47 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
