[Aptitude-devel] Bug#991268: Bug#991268: aptitude should provide an option to install packages from lower priority repos (backports, experimental) if the runtime dependency specify a version that can be satisfied only with these repos

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 03:34:37PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Severity: important
> Version: 0.8.13-3
> 
> aptitude already provide such an option for choosing build dependencies when
> building for backports or experimental, it would be great if there is an
> option for runtime dependencies as well.
> 
> Currently we have 3 options,
> 
> 1. aptitude -t buster-backports/experimental install foo - which will make
> priority of every package 500 and can create problems if conflicting newer
> versions are in buster-backports or experimental.
> 2. aptitude install foo bar/experimental - this works when we have small
> number of dependencies, but for packages with large number of dependencies
> this can be very inconvenient and hard.
> 
> For example, to install diaspora, I have to use
> 
> apt install diaspora ruby-marcel/bullseye-backports-staging
[...]

I'm a bit confused because this bug is about aptitude, and there, this
should work already. It might take a couple times of rejecting solver
choices, though. Did you want to report the bug against apt? I think
we already have a report for that, though.


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