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Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 20:59, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to your 'apt policy' you also had repositories configured for
> Skype and Docker. Did you remove those as well?

They remain, just were in their own files.

>
> > For my apt preferences I had:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: 650
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=unstable
> > Pin-Priority: 600
> >
> > To be honest back in the day when I did that, I struggled to really
> > understand it. My intention was to have the system take packages from
> > unstable and if a package is not available there then from testing.
> > Does it even do that?
>
> It does the exact opposite, because in your configuration testing has
> higher priority.
>
> For what you wrote above you don't need any pinning, just have both
> unstable and testing your sources.list.

Great, thank you very much for clearing this up for me! Problems solved!

Best regards,
Marty

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Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye Martin <mb0087@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 00:00 +0100
  Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian  testing/bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 08:00 +0200
    Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye Martin <mb0087@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 12:40 +0200
      Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian  testing/bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 13:40 +0200
        Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye Martin <mb0087@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 16:50 +0200
          Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian  testing/bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 21:00 +0200
            Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye Martin <mb0087@gmail.com> - 2020-03-30 12:50 +0200
              Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian  testing/bullseye Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-30 13:30 +0200
                Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list dalios <dalios@eumx.net> - 2020-04-01 14:50 +0200
                Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-01 17:50 +0200
                Re: [OT] testing on unstable sources list dalios <dalios@eumx.net> - 2020-04-02 09:00 +0200
    Re: Unsolvable dependency problems around libc / libcrypt on debian testing/bullseye Martin <mb0087@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 12:40 +0200

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