Thread: How to prevent HAM and/or apt-get from upgrading package?
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2013-10-29 , 21:55
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Originally Posted by pali View Post
This can break other parts... And when you change it then apt/dpkg can see that you have different version installed as in apt repo (version string same but control data different) and they can provide "update"... Really do not edit dpkg status file if you do not know what are you doing!
Okay, okay.
I just thought modifying some dependencies I really do not need, could cause such trouble (at least not a mess). Easily to revert.
Above explanation is what I was looking for.
So just out of curiosity, is there really some use case for editing manually (which was correct form my point of view)?

Originally Posted by pali View Post
I think that extras-devel has own fremantle1.3 distribution... And I think that in extras-devel & extras-testing you do not have to care about old PR 1.2 (and 1.1...) releases.
Okay.
But I am not going to be maintainer of mymenu, but would like to help to get that package dependency solved. Some idea?
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