[Tfug] debian, debports and changelogs..
John Gruenenfelder
johng at as.arizona.edu
Mon Oct 13 22:30:46 MST 2008
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:41:34PM -0500, Jeremy D Rogers wrote:
> But now I'm confused by: [2]http://packages.debian.org/sid/iceweasel
> Notice there is no changelog and the red tag [debports]. Compare to the
> lenny version of the page. Note even more strangely, the list of files
> at the bottom of the page which seem to indicate the version for my
> arch (amd64) is 3.0.1, and yet my currently installed version is
> 3.0.3-2.
I can't give any advice on some of the other points, but since you have some
packages from experimental you must have experimental in your APT sources
file.
On one machine I have Debian/testing installed but wanted a few things from
unstable. To make sure it didn't upgrade everything automatically, I added
the following file:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99testing:
//
// Prefer testing over unstable
//
APT::Default-Release "testing";
This way it will only install a package from unstable if I tell it. Perhaps
aptitude decided to upgrade iceweasel to experimental for you?
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