Bug#308445: apt: Pinning seems to be broken
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.36
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental
Hi,
Pinning seems to be broken with APT 0.6. I'm using GNOME 2.10 from
experimental so I have an /etc/apt/preferences file (included below),
which worked fine with apt-0.5.28.6. However, apt-0.6.36 does not let me
install packages from experimental: "apt-get upgrade -t experimental"
does nothing.
For example:
$ apt-cache policy gnome-applets-data
gnome-applets-data:
Installed: 2.10.1-1
Candidate: 2.10.1-1
Version table:
2.10.1-2 0
1 http://ftp.fi.debian.org project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ Packages
*** 2.10.1-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.8.2-1 0
990 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
According to /etc/apt/preferences version 2.10.1-2 should have priority 101, not 1.
Gabor
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Get "";
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "yes";
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
Acquire "";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3128";;
Acquire::ftp "";
Acquire::ftp::Passive "true";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 101
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
#deb http://ftp.hu.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.hu.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ project/experimental/main/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ project/experimental/contrib/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ project/experimental/non-free/binary-i386/
deb http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/debian experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian unstable main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-6 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-3.0.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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