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

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> 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.

It should also be "n=wheezy" or "a=testing" and not "a=wheezy".