Bug#265641: apt: uninstalled, pinned packages hide packages from available list
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:15:35AM -0700, Joshua Neal wrote:
> If you have packages pinned in /etc/apt/preferences, and those packages
> are not installed, then apt-cache will silently remove that package from
> its list of available packages (as in the 'apt-cache dumpavail' option),
> and apt-get install will declare that the package is not available. Yet
> frustratingly enough, 'apt-cache show' will display the package
> information and 'apt-get source' will work happily.
>
> I understand this is probably correct behavior, but in my case these
> entries were added to /etc/apt/preferences by apt-listbugs long ago, so
> it was entirely non-obvious as to why it was not working.
>
> Example from /etc/apt/preferences:
>
> Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Fri Jan 30 02:08:57 PST 2004
> Package: wine
> Pin: version 0.0.20030813-2
> Pin-Priority: 1000
That does not sound like correct behaviour. Please send a transcript
demonstrating exactly what you mean, so that I can try to reproduce the bug.
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- mdz
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