Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist It would be good if apt had a 'normalize' command, similar to 'upgrade', but that would downgrade packages automatically also. For example, suppose someone installed a stable system, then installed a few packages from 'unstable' to see if some bugs were fixed. The bugs were not fixed, so they would like to return the system to entirely stable. The APT sources.list only contains stable sources, so issuing:
apt-get update apt-get normalize would downgrade the appropriate packages back to stable. Packages not available with /etc/apt/sources.list at all would have a warning issued, so the user could decide whether to remove or not (perhaps a --force-removal-of-non-available option or similar could be added to make this easier?) Regards, Andrew. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux laura 2.4.18 #1 Thu Jun 27 18:43:52 BST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_UK, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
