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Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

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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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Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-19 19:00 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-19 20:20 +0200
    Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-20 00:50 +0200
    Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@shaw.ca> - 2018-07-21 23:20 +0200
      Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-22 11:00 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2018-07-20 00:20 +0200
  Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-07-20 06:40 +0200

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