Bug#164843: apt: Pin keyword "origin" should be "source"
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
In the apt preferences file, "origin" is used to refer
to the "Origin:" of a release. Thus, in a release
specification one may have "o=Debian". And, it is
usual in apt terminology that the place where a package
is obtained is called the package's "source" -- as in
"/etc/apt/sources.list". (This is despite the possibility
of users being confused by sources of packages and
source code.)
Thus, in the semantics for specifying package pin
versions, the keyword used should not be "origin"
but "source". I.e., not
Pin: origin ftp.debian.org
but
Pin: source ftp.debian.org
I suggest that "source" be introduced as a synonym
for "origin", that "origin" be deprecated and the
documentation changed accordingly.
Please let me know if I have somehow become sadly
confused.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thanatos 2.4.20-pre8-ac1 #1 Mon Sep 30 10:20:53 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-15 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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