I will change to testing with all keyword switched to testing because my case is more often needing to use newer version software compared to stable, which also works fine w/t a problem for most of time.
Thanks for all your help, and advice! Appreciate it! Sep 4, 2021, 09:30 by riveravaldezm...@gmail.com: > 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 >
