Re: testing new package version

Just found the solution after asking, sorry for the noise.

For the record the solution was to ping my repository with high priority

vagrant@debian-testing:~$ apt-cache policy zeroc-ice-all-runtime
zeroc-ice-all-runtime:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.6.3-4
Version table:
3.7a3-1 500
500 http://dev.zeroc.com/apt/ice/debian9/master stable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://dev.zeroc.com/apt/ice/debian9/master stable/main all Packages
3.6.3-4 990
990 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages

vagrant@debian-testing:~$ apt-cache policy zeroc-ice-all-runtime
zeroc-ice-all-runtime:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.7a3-1
Version table:
3.7a3-1 999
999 http://dev.zeroc.com/apt/ice/debian9/master stable/main amd64 Packages
999 http://dev.zeroc.com/apt/ice/debian9/master stable/main all Packages
3.6.3-4 990
990 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
vagrant@debian-testing:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha <jose@zeroc.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to test a new version of one package I maintain zeroc-ice.

The current version in sid/testing is 3.6.3-4 and I want to test a new major
release currently in alpha (3.7a3-1). I have build that version and upload it
to a repository and configure the repository in my machine.

But apt-get install insist in install version 3.6.3-4 even when I add a version
number to the install command.

vagrant@debian-testing:~$ sudo apt-get install zeroc-ice-all-dev=3.7a3-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
zeroc-ice-all-dev : Depends: libzeroc-ice-dev (>= 3.7a3-1) but 3.6.3-4 is to be installed
Depends: zeroc-ice-compilers (>= 3.7a3-1) but 3.6.3-4 is to be installed
Depends: zeroc-ice-slice (= 3.7a3-1) but 3.6.3-4 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Can some body give a clue on what is going on here with the dependencies.

José Gutiérrez de la Concha
ZeroC, Inc.