On 29/05/2024 00:51, Michael Grant wrote:
The culprits that seemed to be causing the massive dependencies were
libsasl2-2 and libsasl2-modules-db. Though not libsasl2-modules which
i also have installed.
With adjusted priorities these packages are not an issue for "apt upgrade".
More serious concern may be whether data written by newer versions are
readable by older applications or whether some command in package
scripts can fail due to downgrade of libc or some other library. That is
why I consider downgrade as a last resort option. Trying it you should
be prepared to a severe failure and clean reinstall.
Actually the config I posted is incomplete. There is a pitfall similar
to APT::Default-Release (and -t option). Besides bookworm (or stable) it
is necessary to explicitly specify bookworm-security and
bookworm-updates (stable-security, stable-updates). Anyway it can be
easily spotted in
apt policy
output that has to be run to check effect of changed config files.
