Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> Well, the error message in title is not the exact one, but a
> translation of the one I have (which is exactly "W : Aucune priorité
> (ou zéro) n'a été spécifiée pour l'épinglage" but it is in french
> so...).
> 
> The consequence is that it seems my preferences is not used, testing
> packages have lower priority that unstable, which is not what I
> want.
> 
> My sources.list include a line for "wheezy main non-free", another
> for "unstable main" and the last for "experimental main" (my need
> was to add g++4.8, in the hope it include
> "std::set::emplace_hint(iterator, ...)").
> Here is the sources.list:
> =======================
> deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian wheezy main non-free
> deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian unstable main
> deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main
> =======================
> 
> My preferences file contain this:
> =======================
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=wheezy
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority:200
> =======================

You are missing a space before '200'.  I'm not sure if that's the
problem or not, but you should fix it and try it out.

-Rob