Bug#216688: apt/preferences: pinning package to non-automatic priority does not appear to work

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 216688 wishlist
thanks

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:29:38PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:

> I have a sources.list pointing to woody and potato, with a
> Default-Release of "3.0*".  This is because we still need some
> packages from potato that were dropped from woody.
> 
> But I don't want those packages that were essential in potato, and are
> not essential in woody any more (ldso and update), so I try to prevent
> them from being installed using preferences, like:

I don't think that pins currently affect the installation of essential
packages.

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 - mdz