Hi, let's say that I need a package named "weechat"(version 1.6-1) from Debian "testing":
# apt-get install -t testing weechat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: binutils libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc-l10n libc6 libc6-dev libgcrypt20 libgnutls30 libhogweed4 libncurses5 libn weechat-curses Suggested packages: binutils-doc glibc-doc rng-tools gnutls-bin weechat-doc Recommended packages: manpages-dev weechat-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: libc-l10n libgnutls30 libhogweed4 libnettle6 The following packages will be upgraded: binutils libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libgcrypt20 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libp11-kit0 libtasn1-6 li 16 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 511 not upgraded. Need to get 18.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 8,111 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. # I guess one should not worry about new packages? However, as seen above, such operation would upgrade some packages which are dependencies for many other packages. For example libc6, libgcrypt20 or libncurses5. What are the consequences with that? I would guess it shouldn't cause problems because (usually) dependencies require version x OR higher. For example libc6 (>= 2.14) or libgcrypt20 (>= 1.6.1). thanks, Martin
