[nmglug] How to safely replace a Buster/stable package with a Stretch/oldstable package and maintain it?

[J. Marsden DeLapp]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 09:55:07 -0600
Tom Ashcraft <trailerdog234 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Greetings Debianistas,
> 
... 
> People usually seem to complain that the problem with Debian is the 
> default preference for older packages, but in this case the problem 
> seems to be exactly the other way around.

You can use apt pinning and apt preferences to keep a package from
updating.

man apt_preferences
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt_preferences.5.en.html

I have no idea how to undo an update and install older packages. I
looked into doing that once and came to the conclusion that was a risky
thing to do and was likely to result in a broken system.

Mars

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