On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu 2017-02-16 22:14:11 -0500, David Anderson wrote: > > The transcript below still shows one additional package being pulled from > > sid/main, the dkms package. I find this strange: wireguard-dkms depends > on > > dkms >=2.1.0.0, stretch has dkms 2.3-2, and sid has dkms 2.3-3. Despite > the > > negative priority for unstable, apt picks 2.3-3 from sid, even though the > > dependency could be satisfied out of stretch. What am I missing? > > That is indeed weird. what does "apt-cache policy dkms" show you? > # apt-cache policy dkms dkms: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.3-2 Version table: 2.3-3 -1 -10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.3-2 500 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages what if you "apt install dkms" on its own first, which version do you > get? > # apt install -d dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: fakeroot gcc libfakeroot linux-headers-amd64 Suggested packages: python3-apport menu gcc-multilib autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms fakeroot gcc libfakeroot linux-headers-amd64 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 217 kB of archives. After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 gcc amd64 4:6.3.0-1 [5,184 B] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 dkms all 2.3-2 [74.8 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libfakeroot amd64 1.21-3.1 [45.7 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 fakeroot amd64 1.21-3.1 [85.6 kB] Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 linux-headers-amd64 amd64 4.9+78 [5,744 B] Fetched 217 kB in 0s (328 kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode Looks like installing just dkms correctly selects from Stretch, whereas installing as a dependency of wireguard-dkms pulls in the sid version. - Dave > > --dkg >