On 2018-01-25 21:20 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> You can use apt or aptitude for packages in experimental and I see no
> reason against doing that. You do not even need to pin experimental.
> Packages from experimental are automatically assigned priority 1, except
> upgrades for packages that you installed from experimental.
Packages installed from experimental also have priority 1.
> That means you can add experimental to your sources.list and apt will
> not automatically upgrade your packages from testing/sid to the versions
> from experimental. But when you manually select a version from
> experimental (using '-t experimantal'), apt will automatically upgrade
> to newer versions available from experimental.
No, it won't. For that the priority needs to be at least 100, since
this is the priority of the version which is installed on the system.
See apt_preferences(5) and the blog at [1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. http://petereisentraut.blogspot.de/2010/07/increasing-priority-of-debian.html
