Hi, I wanted to have cinnamon 2.8 on debian testing. So I played around with the lmde2 repos (betsy) in testing and managed to install cinnamon 2.8. In the course of this activity I had to donwgrade a handful of packages. It is working now. All is fine, except....
When I do "apt-get dist-upgrade" it wants to remove cinnamon: ---- 35# d-u Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: cinnamon cinnamon-screensaver gir1.2-webkit2-3.0 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtop2-7 The following packages have been kept back: libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libmarco-private0 libnemo-extension1 marco marco-common 6 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 287 kB/1241 kB of archives. After this operation, 1207 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C ---- Why is that? The policy says: ---- 36# apt-cache policy cinnamon cinnamon: Installed: 2.8.4+betsy Candidate: 2.8.4+betsy Version table: *** 2.8.4+betsy 0 900 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ betsy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.6.13-1 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages 100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 2.2.16-5 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages ---- >From that point of view it should keep cinnamon. Here are my pinning values: ---- 37# cat 99_debian Package: * Pin: release a=stable,l=debian Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,l=Debian-Security Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing,l=debian Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable,l=debian Pin-Priority: 100 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 100,l=debian rakete - root - /etc/apt/preferences.d 38# cat 98_mint Package: * Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: origin www.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 500 --- Any idea? Thanks Matthias