Bug#145575: apt: APT::Default-Release overrides /etc/apt/preferences

[Sven Marnach <sven@fsk.uni-heidelberg.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

The APT::Default-Release configuration item overrides a default pin in
/etc/apt/preferences, while man page of apt-get states

       --default-release
              This option controls the default input to the  pol­
              icy  engine,  it  creates a default pin at priority
              990 using the specified release string. The prefer­
              ences  file  may  further override this setting. In
              short, this option lets  you  have  simple  control
              over  which distribution packages will be retrieved
              from. Some common examples might be -t '2.1*' or -t
              unstable.  Configuration Item: APT::Default-Release

Greetings,
Sven

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux legolas 2.2.20 #3 Thu Mar 28 17:34:37 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library



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