On Tue, 8 May 2001, Matthias Berse wrote:
> and tought unstable packages would never be automatically installed.
> However if I do a e.g. apt-get install kernel-patch-xfs
>From the man page..
0 to 100
Non automatic priorities. These are only used if
the package is not installed and there is no other
version available.
less than 0
The version is never selected.
So what you describe is as documented, use -1 instead of 50.
Jason