Bug#121051: apt: package wildcards don't work in apt preferences

[Andreas Michlmayr <andreas@bignose.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal


have /etc/apt/preferences set to pin-down to testing via  
  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 990
sources.list gets woody & unstable from umich.edu and non-us.debian.org

try
  Package: package.name.prefix.here*
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 999

but it won't upgrade to unstable versions of package and friends

works fine if all packages and sub-packages explicit without wildcard

andreas


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cranky 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-5           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library