Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-10-08 19:06 +0200, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:

> Since I had to reinstall from my last kernel error, I decided to stay
> with stable on that computer, but I need some softwares in less
> outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is not
> a need but a question of comfort, I admit ), so I want to use
> apt-pining.
>
> I have set all packages from stable to a priority of 900 and testing
> packages with 500.
> But tzdata wants to upgrade, for an unknown reason. Explicitly making
> it to a priority of 900 for stable fixes that, but I can not
> understand why it is needed?

I don't know either, but "apt-cache policy tzdata" should explain it.

Cheers,
       Sven