On 9/3/21, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2021-09-03 at 15:16, Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 13:40:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >>> (...) >>> In the absence of "pinning", using the two lines that The Wanderer >>> posted would give you a testing system, with the option to pull in >>> packages from stable if needed. It's a viable setup. Sensible. >> (...) > > Absence in testing is the specific reason why I still include that line: > in case I need to install a package because I need its functionality, > but it's been temporarily removed from testing for whatever reason. > > That scenario has actually arisen a handful of times over the years, and > the rest of the time, having the line included doesn't seem to have done > any harm. > > -- > The Wanderer
In fact, I'm just right now dealing with kinda situation. There's this `phwmon.py`[1] which I use with fluxbox to have a couple of system monitors at hand, and that depends on some python2 packages. I've just made it work, installing manually (# apt-get install packages.deb) this packages that I've downloaded from OldStable official archives: python-psutil python-is-python2 (this is in fact in Testing) python-numpy python-pkg-resources python-cairo libffi6 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 Therefore, my question: Is it better to install them as I did, or adding the line in sources.list as The Wanderer does? Thanks a lot in advance. Kind regards! [1] https://gitlab.com/o9000/phwmon
