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I've built a Debian package from source with dpkg-buildpackage according to helpful instructions found here to fix an issue that bugged me. I used dch -n to increase the version by a non-maintainer sub version to have my custom package "beat" the standard one. Then I installed the produced .deb packages from my file system using apt-get install. Everything worked fine!

But is there also a way to restore the original package from the official Debian repository after having tested my changes?

I don't really want to apt-get remove/purge ... as this is about a library and half the system depends on that.

Can I "downgrade" the package to the official one without removing every package that depends on it?

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Yes, you can specify a release to use and apt will downgrade the package accordingly:

sudo apt install foo/stable

will downgrade (or upgrade) the foo package to the release currently available in the stable distribution. You can replace stable with whichever release is appropriate.

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