mozilla.debian.net should advise on pinning 'unstable'

paul paul at zot.org
Mon Jan 29 07:21:48 UTC 2018


Hi folks,

I've just turned a Buster install into an 'Accidental Sid' install by 
following the instructions to install the release version of Firefox on 
mozilla.debian.net.

The problem is that the instructions don't mention to lower the pin 
priority on the new 'unstable' repo you insert (I inserted it as a new 
.list file in sources.list.d), so it gets a default pin of 500. This 
matches the original default repos, and unstable will win out due to the 
higher version numbers for various packages. As I was installing this 
fresh machine, I was in "just upgrade stuff until it stops complaining" 
mode, so didn't realise that it was now pulling from 'unstable'. 
lsb_release now reports the system as being version 'unstable'.

The instructions should probably mention the pinning issue, for those 
who don't already have a pin for 'unstable'. I put the following into 
/etc/apt/preferences, which in theory would have prevented the 
'Accidental Sid':

   Package: *
   Pin: release a=unstable
   Pin-Priority: 100

Cheers,

Paul




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