Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 08.10.2013 22:42, Sven Joachim a écrit :
> 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 outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is 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

Thanks for the hint, I had forgotten about apt-cache policy.
I finally understood, why the update was on the run:

tzdata:
  Installé : 2013d-0wheezy1
  Candidat : 2013d-1
 Table de version :
     2013d-1 0
        500 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 
Packages
 *** 2013d-0wheezy1 0
        500 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates/main amd64 
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2013c-0wheezy1 0
        900 http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 
Packages

Version 2013d-0wheezy1 had the same priority as testing one so testing 
was installed because more recent.
Now, I wonder why I have 3 versions of that package listed when I only 
have 2 sources enabled? Could it be because of stable, stable/updates 
and stable-updates repositories? ( I am not used to stable, so I do not 
have the "updates" repos usually )
And also why I have a wheezy version with a priority of 500... I can 
not even find the 2013d-0wheezy1 in debian packages...