Bug#216688: apt/preferences: pinning package to non-automatic priority does not appear to work
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:03:02PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:21:14AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I don't think that pins currently affect the installation of essential
> > packages.
>
> Then this should be documented, or there's no way to find out what's
> happenning.
Patches welcome. People don't read the documentation, and if they do, they
don't understand it, so this is usually a waste of time.
If you need packages from potato, just install them and don't put the source
in sources.list. There will never be updated packages for potato, ever.
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- mdz
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