debian speakup emacs upgrade

[Tony Baechler]

Gaijin wrote:
> full-upgrade repeatedly can have strange, unwanted results.  My debsecan
> package is giving me grief over the same reason, because there's a newer
> module in perl than the one it needs to backport to. <shrugs>
>   



Hi,

There are a couple solutions to this.  First, aptitude will downgrade 
packages, so you could try downgrading the perl module.  Second, if you 
go to a Debian mirror with ftp and look in the pool/main/w/whatever 
directory, replacing /w/whatever with the correct first letter and 
package name respectively, you might be able to download the .deb 
package directly.  Finally, you can go to Debian snapshots and pick any 
date and release which will let you downgrade that way, such as Lenny 
for a month ago.  I think the url is http://snapshots.debian.net/ but 
that might not be right.  It was just recently posted here.  You might 
also check the Ubuntu archives as well if you don't want to use a 
snapshot archive.