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authorDaniel Lewart <lewart3@gmail.com>2025-12-16 02:35:50 -0600
committerDaniel Lewart <lewart3@gmail.com>2025-12-16 02:35:50 -0600
commit289ba24fa9dda634e842da9f6beb6d813f810280 (patch)
treeeef0e854607763b1a4749e010c9d337c415eafcf /doc
parentb93156f900ec7bd0f778b1d3a4302441c73b4b52 (diff)
Priority 1000 allows downgrades. Closes #1016967
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diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
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@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ as "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes".</para>
to determine which version of a package to install.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>Never downgrade unless the priority of an available
-version exceeds 1000. ("Downgrading" is installing a less recent version
-of a package in place of a more recent version. Note that none of APT's
-default priorities exceeds 1000; such high priorities can only be set in
+version is at least 1000. ("Downgrading" is installing a less recent version
+of a package in place of a more recent version. Note that all of APT's
+default priorities are less than 1000; higher priorities can only be set in
the preferences file. Note also that downgrading a package
can be risky.)</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>Install the highest priority version.</simpara></listitem>