Version compatibility: Debian vs Ubuntu

[Russell Gadd]

Thanks Elizabeth. I knew about apt pinning as it relates to keeping an older
version of something, but not in relation to getting a version from a later
release. I must look up the details sometime but it is good to know that
this is possible.



On 27 January 2010 10:49, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Russell Gadd wrote:
> > Looking at Gnucash's list of changes on the website, I can't find
> anything
> > between these 2 versions which implies that the file format has changed
> but
> > I would appreciate someone confirming that there will be no issues going
> > back to 2.2.6.
> >
> > Gnucash is a must-have application for me and I can't afford to take the
> > risk of not being able to use my accounts file.
> >
> nothing would stop you from using 2.2.9 by setting apt-get to get that
> version
> which is in unstable
> so if you could not return from 2.2.9 to 2.2.6 you would pin gnucash to
> unstable to obtain the required version.
> no risk is involved.
> (2.2.9 works fine here on my 'unstable' system)
>
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