Bug#165365: apt: APT::Default-Release should accept release codenames
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
There are currently a number of features in testing that justify
having a production server point both to woody as stable, and to
testing. In this case, the APT::Default-Release setting should be
"woody". I don't want to ever see "stable" here, as I want to control
when transitionning from woody to sarge, and already saw customers
with _broken_ machines halfway between potato and woody, just because
their sources.list blithely pointed to "stable".
However, I can't just use codenames - even with "install
package/release", although I thought this one had worked in the past.
It looks like the codename should be added to Release files for the
necessary information to be available ?
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.19-station #1 Tue Aug 6 11:36:58 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 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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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/
Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique
Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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