apt-get source and /etc/apt/apt.conf

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

I was perplexed by getting older source version(s) of file with "apt-get
source gkrellm".

I asked a friend and went through:

I didn't have any pinning, didn't even know how to pin.

However:

zen8100a:/etc/apt# cat apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "woody";

It appears there's some configuration for apt called Default-Release.
And it's in the apt.conf file which I've never known about before. Seems
bizzarre that I could have had such an entry for so long (two years)
without previously seeing a problem.

Anyway, perhaps this will benefit someone else.

cheers
zen