Bug#308445: apt: Pinning seems to be broken

[Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:49:43AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.36
> Severity: normal
> Tags: experimental

Thanks for your bugreport. 

> 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.

Can you please run "apt-cache policy" (without additional arguments)
and add the output to this bugreport? There are some known issues with
pinning on components, but pinning on "archive" should work.

Thanks,
 Michael
 

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