Bug#428381: ftp.debian.org: proposed-updates is not part of "release a=stable"
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Since "proposed-updates" contain only approved updates for the next stable
release it make sense to add it to the sources.lists (at least for some
users).
I have done so and I'm discovering a little quirk related to its use.
Until now I had etch + proposed-updates only in my sources.list.
Recently I have added sid in my sources.list and added
APT::Default-Release "stable" to make sure to follow etch.
All packages which already got updated via proposed-updates are now
candidates for upgrade to sid... that's because proposed-updates is
not labelled as being part of "release a=stable" and as such is not pinned
accordingly.
It has:
release v=4.0-updates,o=Debian,a=proposed-updates,l=Debian,c=main
Whereas etch has:
release v=4.0r0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
I don't know how dak works but IMO it would make more sense to have
proposed-updates be:
release v=4.0-updates,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=proposed-updates/main
Of course, for an experienced APT user the problem is minor. It can be
solved by adding this snippet to /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=proposed-updates
Pin-Priority: 990
But I really believe that APT::Default-Release "stable" should be enough
and do the right thing with proposed-updates as well.
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (990, 'proposed-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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