Re: apt-pinning, strange behavior

[Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs>]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:12:46 +0200
berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 outdated versions, like development libraries or i3 ( this one is 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...
> 
> 

The answer to your question is in files /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Release.
You can notice the difference:

Suite: stable
Suite: stable-updates