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Re: Backports not showing up.



On Du, 27 apr 14, 14:49:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> (2014-04-27):
> > Yes, you are are right. However, I can reproduce the behaviour
> > ('aptitude -t wheezy-backports show <package>' not showing the backports 
> > version) with 0.6.8.2-1 (wheezy), but not 0.6.10-1 (testing/unstable), 
> > so I guess something was changed/fixed in between.
> > 
> > The stable system has a quite clean sources.list (only wheezy + security 
> > + backports).
> 
> Probably because you have the package installed. Remove it and try again?

Right (I tried using another package), which seems to be a bug (either 
in behaviour or in the manpage).

However, my initial point was that this has probably nothing to do with 
other -backports repositories configured, but rather with 
unintuitive/undocumented/buggy behaviour of aptitude.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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