I think it would be good, if apt could downgrade the dependencies, too. I reported a related bug #1857018.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107221 Title: apt-get should allow downgrade also Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Recently after installing KDE 3.5.6 on Kubuntu with apt-get dist- upgrade I have been facing some problems. I would like to downgrade my KDE back to 3.5.5. But apt-get does not provide any way of doing this. Please provide a downgrade command for apt-get so that I am asked which version I want to downgrade to, providing the next available lower version as default (so I can just keep hitting Enter through the downgrade process). The session would look something like this: $ sudo apt-get downgrade kdelibs4c2a Password: The current installed version of kdelibs4c2a is: 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu1~edgy1. The next lower available version of kdelibs4c2a is: 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.4 from http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Would you like to downgrade? [y/N] y This downgrade would break the dependencies of the following packages: kate kdesktop ... kwin [blah blah blah] Would you like to downgrade them also? [y/N] y Building dependency tree Need to get [500 kB/1034 kB] archives: [working] Done. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/107221/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
