On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 03:34:37PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Package: aptitude > Severity: important > Version: 0.8.13-3 > > aptitude already provide such an option for choosing build dependencies when > building for backports or experimental, it would be great if there is an > option for runtime dependencies as well. > > Currently we have 3 options, > > 1. aptitude -t buster-backports/experimental install foo - which will make > priority of every package 500 and can create problems if conflicting newer > versions are in buster-backports or experimental. > 2. aptitude install foo bar/experimental - this works when we have small > number of dependencies, but for packages with large number of dependencies > this can be very inconvenient and hard. > > For example, to install diaspora, I have to use > > apt install diaspora ruby-marcel/bullseye-backports-staging [...]
I'm a bit confused because this bug is about aptitude, and there, this should work already. It might take a couple times of rejecting solver choices, though. Did you want to report the bug against apt? I think we already have a report for that, though. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
