Bug#204971: Wrong priorities with 'Pin-Priority: 0' in /etc/apt/preferences
On Monday 11 August 2003 19:28, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:04:33PM +0300, Jarkko Suontausta wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.5.8
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > If I have this in my /etc/apt/preferences...
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=experimental
> > Pin-Priority: 0
> >
> > ....then apt sets all packages from experimental as priority 989, instead
> > of the expected 0 (zero):
>
> What happens if you change the priority to -10 or so? I think zero may be
> special.apt_preferences
Negative values are ok, only zero is special. However, according to
apt_preferences(5), this shouldn't be the case:
"HOW APT INTERPRETS PRIORITIES
<cut>
0 <= P <=100
causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed
version of the package"
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