Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I
finally gave things a try and ran
dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb
and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was
downgrading packages) was that such a downgrade would require
overwriting another package's files, libdb1-compat. This package is
required by libc6 >= 2.2.5-13 which applied to the higher version of
libc6 I was coming from but not going to. So, with a fair amount of
looking over manual pages for dpkg and such, I came up with:
dpkg -i -B --force-overwrite libc6*2.2.5*.deb
which I tried with a bit of concern. The -B is supposed to
"deconfigure" any packages which depend on a package(s) you are
removing. The --force-overwrite tells dpkg to go ahead and write over
another package's files. This worked great! Once libc6 and libc6-dev
where downgraded, I was able to remove libdb1-compat without trouble
(again, worried a bit that removal of the package might remove
files required by libc6-2.2.5-11.5 but it thankfully did not).
Paul
->>In response to your message<<-
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>
> Hi, I've inherited a Debian system that primarily uses the stable
> distribution and yet on which the previous manager must have upgraded
> libc6, libc6-dev and locales to, likely, the testing distribution as
> they are higher versions than available from stable. Now that it is in
> my hands, I'd prefer it use the versions current with the stable dist.
> From doing some research, I feel fairly confident that only the
> packages above where upgraded (using 'dpkg -l', going through
> 'dselect', looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available, etc) yet realize
> these are less than perfect checks and that I could easily be missing
> something.
>
> I'm tempted to downgrade with a:
>
> dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386 libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386 locales_2.2.5-11.5_i386
>
> I'm I asking for a lot of trouble???? Is there a safer more sure way
> to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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