In addition to -backports and -proposed, pinning support would be very helpful for installing, and automatically updating, a new version of a package from a PPA whilst _not_ installing other packages from that same PPA that are incompatible with software on the local machine.
(I re-stated the use of pinning just in case it would help any somewhat- new user, reading this bug, understand better why pinning is needed. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237299 Title: RFE: pinning a specified release To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/237299/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
