Thanks, I'll have a look on these! Currently, it seems that the system got so entangled that trying to modify (remove or update) certain packages would result in the desktop environment I'm using (Mate) to be removed...
The reason why I've started with pinning is the following. I'm using a free EDA software called KiCad. Even as of now, the most recent version in the testing repo is 7.0.11. It was working perfectly, until at some point newer releases of two crucial libraries used by this program: kicad-footprints and kicad-symbols were authorized in testing, so upon the next dist-upgrade I have ended up having KiCad version 7, with libraries version 8. And of course, these were not made to be compatible with each other, so the software became completely unusable. I really think this is a mistake by the respective package maintainers, there was no reason to allow these newer libs into the repo without the newer version of the main software.
I have filed a bug report, but in the meantime, I also had to continue working, so I had to find a way to downgrade these packages back to version 7, while keeping the system as much "testing" as possible. The alternative would have been to install KiCad version 8 from unstable, but I wanted to avoid this for multiple reasons. And here we are![:)]( "Smile")
The reason why I've started with pinning is the following. I'm using a free EDA software called KiCad. Even as of now, the most recent version in the testing repo is 7.0.11. It was working perfectly, until at some point newer releases of two crucial libraries used by this program: kicad-footprints and kicad-symbols were authorized in testing, so upon the next dist-upgrade I have ended up having KiCad version 7, with libraries version 8. And of course, these were not made to be compatible with each other, so the software became completely unusable. I really think this is a mistake by the respective package maintainers, there was no reason to allow these newer libs into the repo without the newer version of the main software.
I have filed a bug report, but in the meantime, I also had to continue working, so I had to find a way to downgrade these packages back to version 7, while keeping the system as much "testing" as possible. The alternative would have been to install KiCad version 8 from unstable, but I wanted to avoid this for multiple reasons. And here we are
Statistics: Posted by izemize — 2024-04-30 22:51