how can I teach aptitude to not be sooo incredible stupid? In the current transition to gnome3 (or it seems) I press
Maybe experimental (where gnome3 currently resides) has the wrong priority set in /etc/apt/preferences? Mine looks like this and I regularly upgrade (through apt-get, though) without any problems:
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 901 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 501 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101 - Fabian