Bug#137433: apt: -t option fails to give warning when ignoring you
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
Shouldn't apt-get give a warning when it ignores you? An example I just tried:
>apt-get install -t unstable ssh
(because a new exploit was just discovered in OpenSSH).
apt-get happily grabs a package and upgrades, without warning me that in fact I
have forgotten to uncomment the unstable line in sources.list. It uses the
testing version, even though I asked specifically for unstable. I only discovered
this by using dpkg --status to compare the version installed with the desired
unstable version.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux robust.colorado.edu 2.4.10 #1 SMP Thu Oct 25 18:14:47 MDT 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library
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