Bug#152129: -t ignoring also happens with binary installs and upgrades
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:11:30PM +1100, Cameron Stone wrote:
> My sources.list contains entries for stable, testing, and unstable. I'm
> currently tracking testing (with a few unstables). I have a
> 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' line in my apt.conf.
>
> When I run apt-get install on a package I know has an upgrade, or
> apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade or dselect-upgrade) with no options apt
> tries to downgrade the package (or packages) to stable. This also
> happens if I include a '-t testing' or '-t unstable'. This is similar to
> this bug which is why I'm mailing you.
apt doesn't downgrade packages unless you set an obsecenely high pin value
in /etc/apt/preferences.
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- mdz
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