Moving from unstable to testing

From: Jason Slaughter (jason_at_slaughter.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:43:02 -0500

    I have been running a debian unstable machine for a while but I'd like to move
    it to a "testing" machine (with a few unstable packages pinned). I know
    downgrades like this aren't really encouraged, but I don't want to downgrade
    so much as run the system I'm running now, and wait for my unstable packages
    to "catch up" to testing. After that I'd like the packages to upgrade from
    testing instead of unstable.

    I notice that apt-show-versions shows that dpkg seems to "know" what flavour a
    given package was installed in. Is there any way (without horribly breaking
    things) to trick dpkg into thinking everything on my system was installed as
    "testing" instead of "unstable," and to have my apt-get upgrades ignore
    anything that's got a version "in the future" as far as "testing" is
    concerned? 

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