On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 19:21:37 +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> You can remove those lines once 4.3 is available. There is no way for
> apt to know which version you want to upgrade to unless you tell it.

But I wouldn't know when a package would be available (there are
several packages I have to track).

> If you want to just make a particular version (ie. 4.2) uninstallable,

Yes, this is what I want.

> then pin it to a sufficiently low priority, as I have outlined
> elsewhere in the thread.

This does *not* work.

> This is generally not such a good strategy, though, since minor
> upgrades will break this.

Minor upgrades should be OK.

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