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Bug#27618: apt: apt-get does not honor orders of URI in sources.list



Package: apt
Version: 0.1.6

man-page of apt-get & sources.list says this:

      It is important to list sources in  order  of  preference,
      with  the  most  preferred  source listed first. Typically

And in my point of view it doesn't work this way - as it is always
sorts the the packages and build its own sorted list -
and in this list is project/experimental always the last one.
That means all packages from this source try to overwrite 
those in unstable or in hamm.

I have tried every combination (even with hamm URI) and
packages were always sorted this way:
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org hamm/binary-i386/ Packages
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/binary-i386/ Packages
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org hamm/contrib Packages                             
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org hamm/main Packages                                
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org hamm/non-free Packages                            
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org project/experimental/ Packages

which is what I don't want.

I think if the apt wouldn't do this it should also fix the bug
Get http://ftp.de.debian.org project/experimental/ Packages

#27100: apt: Better support for project/experimental

As with http method is not the problem to have packages from
project/exprimental, but standard packages from slink or hamm.



-- System Information
Debian Release: slink
Kernel Version: Linux decibel 2.0.36 #3 Thu Sep 10 11:37:09 CEST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7u-2       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  libstdc++2.8    2.90.29-0.6    The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)

--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian project/experimental/ 
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US  slink/binary-i386/

--- End /etc/apt/sources.list


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