On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to > remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones > available in Debian repositories.
Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command "rm" in the same vein. > Fine, but reverting ffmpeg from D-M to > the official version it can be undesiderable or even break based on the > current pining and priorities (it can leave your system with mixed > libraries from differenet sources). More precisely, *having D-M* in your sources list can be undesirable¹; it can leave your system with mixed libraries from different sources. An interesting read starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/03/threads.html#00151 ¹Particularly: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/03/msg00151.html "... we have a policy to just close a bug with a very short explanation if we notice that the crash involves a package from debian-multimedia.org; everything else is absolutely not worth the trouble. Cf. also [1]." [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120313042006.GB1971@tal
