On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 02:47:47 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 iul 20, 13:46:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > If synaptic is pulling in *-backports without you manually DOING > > something to select the backport over the standard version, then > > synaptic is broken. Broken-er. More broken-er. > > In synaptic's defence, it probably doesn't have a choice if -backports > (and -security?) is the only available repository. See Gene's original > sources.list.
I can look for the reference, but somewhere I read (recently, but as with all google searches, it could have been from the previous century) something to the effect that, well, I forget which way it worked, but somehow that maybe non backport applications would get a pin value like 100 so that backport applications would only be installed if somehow they had a higher pin value (or something like that). Maybe that goes out the window if all / the only repositories were backport repositories? (BTW, if it's not yet clear, I'm going down the rabbit hole ;-(
