On 2017-03-21 08:00:52 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Note: I still want to keep experimental in my sources.list for the > > cases where I *explicitly* request experimental packages. > > I keep these extra thingies commented out in my sources.list and > whenever I want to explicitly request some package from them, > I uncomment the line, redo the `update` and then the install, after > which I try not to forget to comment it out again,
But then, you cannot know when a package from experimental is upgradeable. This was the whole point here, because I have a cron script that does: apt-show-versions -u | grep manually so that I know when I may need to upgrade a package that was installed from experimental. Now... After a closer look, I've found that aptitude was not the culprit here. Even though I got: libreoffice-common:all/experimental *manually* upgradeable from 1:5.2.6-1 to 1:5.3.1-1 libreoffice-java-common:all/experimental *manually* upgradeable from 1:5.2.6-1 to 1:5.3.1-1 [...] version 1:5.2.6-1 was never in experimental. It just comes from unstable, so that aptitude was OK. The bug is in apt-show-versions, which I've just reported: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858337 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
