Re: apt: pin: how to debug?

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:


    Kai> By the way, is it just me misunderstanding something, or is
    Kai> it a bug that neither

    Kai> apt-get -t stable source apt

    Kai> nor

    Kai> apt-get source apt/stable

    Kai> do anything useful? (The first gives the testing version, the
    Kai> second finds nothing; apt=0.3.19 does work, however.)

There are two issues here (which I would like to see solved):

a) No release files exist for source code.

b) When I filled a bug report (#88809) about this[1], I was told that
apt-get doesn't support release files for source code (true or
false?).

So, AFAIK preferences are not supported for source code. Instead, the
latest version is always used.

Note:

[1] I am not really happy with this response because apt-get still
tries to download the release files, and squid can't cache a file that
doesn't exist. So each time I do a new apt-get upgrade, I have to wait
for squid to re-determine that the relevant files still do not exist.
Ok for low latency Internet connections, but mine doesn't fall into
that category.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>