Rick Macdonald: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from > stable as the stable versions become newer than the unstable packages that I > currently have installed?
Yes, "eventually". At some unknown time in the future. Probably. That
point in time will most probably coincide with a new stable release.
Stable does not change very often, as the name implies.
> Or might I hit some dependency problems along the way?
That is a possibility.
> Should I instead do the downgrades now by pinning stable to priority
> 1001 (with I'm guessing is a one-time thing to do, and then remove the
> pinning)?
I would try to force this downgrade (if it is for a very limited set of
packages as in your case) using '-t stable' or 'package=<version in
stable>. If that doesn't work, remove and reinstall. But your approach
appears to work as well. I am not surprised that apt wants to remove a
seemingly unrelated package. Just let it do that and reinstall that
package.
Generally, downgrades are not supported. And generally, mixing packages
from different releases is neither supported nor a great idea.
J.
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