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Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

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> I needed to install a version of sendmail from testing a while back to
> test it.

Downgrading Debian packages is not well supported, by and large.
So installing `testing` packages into a `stable` install is manageable
(tho it itself can bring trouble) but going back to `stable` afterwards
tends to be a lot more complicated.

Transitions like the t64 transition going on right now in `testing` make
it yet more troublesome.

I recommend the use of snapshots when you want to try such a thing with
the intention of "going back" later.

> # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin

I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll
need things like

    apt install libc-bin/bookworm

to state more explicitly what you want.
Maybe you can do something like

    apt install $(apt-show-versions | sed -n 's|/testing.*|/stable|p')


- Stefan

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moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 16:10 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 16:30 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-27 16:40 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-27 16:30 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 17:00 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-27 17:10 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-27 19:10 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 20:50 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2024-05-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-28 01:30 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-28 05:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-28 06:30 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-28 14:40 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-05-27 17:40 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 18:30 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 12:20 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 13:10 +0200
            Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 13:10 +0200
              Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 14:10 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 15:20 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 16:30 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 19:10 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 19:20 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-28 19:30 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 20:00 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-29 06:10 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2024-05-28 15:00 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-05-27 22:30 +0200

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