Bug#216682: apt/preferences: need for pinning a given (set of) package per release

[Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: wishlist

Currently, as documented in the sid manpage, one can only pin a single
package per "version", or all packages (via "*") per "release".

It would be useful to pin a single package per "release" as well, since:

1. one possibly does not want to bother what the package version is

2. pinning a version uwing a wildcard may not be adequate, as
examplified by the openssh major upgrade during the potato
maintainance cycle

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.4.21-k6+preempt #1 jeu jui 10 10:51:00 CEST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=français, LC_CTYPE=français

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:3.3.2-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                    1:3.3.2-1  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information


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