Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2015, 13:18 +0200 schrieb Andreas Beckmann: > Would have been helpful to give these command lines ...
Sure, sorry. $ grep piuparts ~/.bash_history [...] sudo piuparts ../chocolate-doom_2.1.0-2_amd64.changes sudo piuparts ../chocolate-doom_2.1.0-2_amd64.deb ../chocolate-common_2.1.0-2_amd64.deb sudo piuparts -d unstable ../chocolate-doom_2.1.0-2_amd64.changes reportbug piuparts [...] sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs -a chocolate-doom sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs --do-not-verify-signatures -a chocolate-doom sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs --do-not-verify-signatures --install-recommends -a chocolate-doom sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs --do-not-verify-signatures --install-recommends -a -d sid chocolate-doom sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs --do-not-verify-signatures --install-recommends -a -d stable chocolate-doom sudo piuparts --bindmount /tmp/repo --testdebs-repo /tmp/repo --distupgrade-to-testdebs --do-not-verify-signatures --install-recommends chocolate-doom_2.1.0-1_amd64.changes Please note that chocolate-doom_2.1.0-1 is the version currently in sid and -2 is the version I prepared locally. In this version the package has been split from 1 into 5 binary packages. If you need more information about the package, please find it prepared here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/chocolate-doom.git > --distupgrade-to-testdebs will be needed, perhaps with one or two > -d <distro> options (even '-d sid -d sid' could work) As you can see from the command lines I posted above, I already tried various combinations of these parameters. The symptoms were always the same: With the "-a" parameter, apt always preferred to install the local package with the higher package revision. When passed the .changes file, apt was always forced to install exactly this specific version by passing the "=$version" suffix. - Fabian
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