[Note: forwarded from the deity list, where it received no comments]
Using APT 0.5.28.6, I have just encountered another issue:
I have maradns pinned to unstable with a priority of 600. I prepared
an NMU yesterday and installed it. Now APT propose to downgrade!:
wall:~# apt-get upgrade
[...]
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
maradns
wall:~# apt-cache policy maradns
maradns:
Installed: 1.2.03.3-1.1
Candidate: 1.2.03.3-1
Package Pin: 1.2.03.3-1
Version Table:
*** 1.2.03.3-1.1 600
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.03.3-1 600
-10 http://debian.ethz.ch sid/main Packages
1.0.27-1 600
500 http://debian.ethz.ch sarge/main Packages
apt_preferences(1) says that APT "Never downgrades unless the
priority of an available version exceeds 1000.". It goes on:
More rarely, the installed version of a package is more recent
than any of the other available versions. The package will not
be downgraded when apt-get install some-package or apt-get
upgrade is executed.
Since maradns/unstable is pinned to 600 (and the rest of unstable to
-10), it should *never* downgrade unless I ask it to. What's going
on?
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