Re: why is the package being pulled from testing?

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:12:41 +0100
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:

> > Both stable and testing are pinned in the 100-999 bracket, so apt
> > is perhaps feeling free to download whichever package is the most recent
> > (the one in testing).
> 
> ok. i raised stable to 1001, which did the trick. nevertheless, the
> above setup works perfectly fine with all my other machines. there,
> testing is at 666 and unstable at 333, so packages will stable if they
> are available there, testing if they aren't in stable, and unstable if
> they aren't in testing.

Going out on a limb here, do you have a line

   APT::Default-Release "testing";

in your /etc/apt/apt.conf? Maybe that line exists on the other machines
and not on the one concerned.

HTH

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