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Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

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On 14.05.20 08:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 13 mai 20, 17:40:45, Marco Möller wrote:
>> Unfortunately I now see that there are already many packages from /sid
>> residing in my supposed to be /testing installation. FrankenDebian detected.
> 
> This might happen if the package has the same version in testing as in
> unstable. 'apt list <package>' is correct (as well as
> 'apt policy <pacakge>').

According to the following command I currently have some roughly 60 
packages from /unstable in my supposed to be /testing Debian 
installation, besides some manually installed packages:

   apt list -a | grep installed | grep -v -E 'testing|local'

I meanwhile figured out that the easiest way for obtaining my wished 
result to include Firefox from /unstable into my otherwise /testing 
Debian installation could be to define some "Pin-Priority" in a file like:

   /etc/apt/preferences.d/package-pinning.pref

I now created such file and defined the following rules (I do not have 
an  apt.conf  file which could interfere with a potential 
Default-Release definition there):

   Explanation: prefer this specific package to be taken from unstable
   Package: firefox
   Pin: release a=unstable
   Pin-Priority: 600

   Explanation: generally ignore unstable packages
   Package: *
   Pin: release unstable
   Pin-Priority: 50

As downgrades are risky and the packages drawn in by the apt upgrades 
obviously show recent maintenance activity, I am for now hoping that the 
package maintenance activity will continue and by this in a couple of 
weeks my installation will clean up automatically when again using all 
packages (except Firefox) from /testing once newer versions than I have 
them now installed from /unstable will have arrived in /testing.

Concerning the Cherrytree and python-chardet problem my plan is to even 
more trust in 'hope' that cherrytree will after years soon find its way 
back into the currently updating Debian repositories.  :-(

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package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-13 16:30 +0200
  Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-13 17:50 +0200
    Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-14 08:40 +0200
      Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 11:50 +0200
        Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-14 13:10 +0200
          Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 22:10 +0200

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