Nicolas Boulenguez wrote: > > I have an Ada program that uses a database on Debian. Do I understand > > correctly that Gnatcoll-DB will be removed entirely from Debian > > Bookworm because of what looks like miscompilation on a single arch? > > So I'll have to build Gnatcoll-DB myself to be able to upgrade from > > Bullseye to Bookworm? > > You should not need to build libgnatcoll-db yourself. > > If the issue is not fixed when you upgrade your system to bookworm, > you may install the specific libgnatcoll-db package from the unstable > distribution (except on MIPS of course). > > /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main > > By default, prefer packages from bookworm even if more recent versions > exist in unstable. > > /etc/apt/preferences: > Package: * > Pin: release n=bookworm > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release n=bookworm-updates > Pin-Priority: 990 > > You may then use > # aptitude install libgnatcoll-db/unstable > or something similar in aptitude/synaptics/... That looks workable. Thanks for the tip. I assume that the package in unstable will at some point be linked to a new version of Libgnat or some other library, and thus become uninstallable in Bookworm, so I should do the above before that happens, and then the package I have installed will remain installed. Björn Persson
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