Pinning & Pining

Well, unsurprisingly I did install Firefox from experimental, and, equally unsurprisingly, it works perfectly. I love how pragmatic the Debian Developers (DD) are :) Even the alpha release packages tend to "just work". Of course, sometimes that nasty boy Sid does break your toys :(

Anyway, when one is foolish enough to use packages from experimental, updating can be a pain. Apt will always downgrade your shiny new experimental packages unless you pin 'em. Here's the snippet from my /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101

In theory this will allow you to upgrade a mixed unstable/experimental system easily.