On 04/03/2026 11:32 pm, Tim Woodall wrote:
I'm surprised this isn't an existing use case so it's more likely I just don't know the right magic to make it work.
Have you tried to pin *specific* packages (regular and dev packages for comerr and e2fs libraries) to backports? You might need to run upgrade before installing dependencies to have runtime libraries from backports.
Perhaps pinning of just dev packages and explicitly installing runtime versions from backports may be an alternative.
I see you were trying to avoid pinning, but in my opinion, it is the proper way to solve the problem. Of course, increasing priority of the backports repository as whole is risky.
