Re: [LUG] downgrading in debian and problem in thunderbird

[Phil Brooke <philb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Neil Williams wrote:
> There's a bug in Gnucash in Debian unstable that prevents the app from being
> launched. The workaround is to downgrade libltdl3 by one release. This works
> fine, but as I use cron-apt to update the rest of the distro each night, is
> there a way of 'holding-back' libltdl3 until the next release of Gnucash?

`Hold' in aptitude or dselect (the `=' key), once you've got the right
version of the package installed.

> Are there problems with repeatedly downgrading one package?

Unlikely (provided the package is well-behaved) -- I test that I haven't
broken a package when working on it by repeatedly installing,
deinstalling, upgrading, and downgrading.

I guess I must be one of the few people who's still happy with Debian
stable on a workstation....

Phil.

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