Bug#308445: apt: Pinning seems to be broken

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:32:11PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Now that apt 0.6.38 is in unstable I hit this bug again. What I found
> is that manually adding a "Suite: experimental" line to the Release file
> fixes the bug:

Pinning on the component should work again (for most cases). 

Looking at the Release file at:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/Release
it looks like there is a Suite already. 
 
> With original Release file:
[..] 
> So at least a workaround for this bug would be to add "Suite:
> experimental" to the Release files under debian/project/experimental.

See above, is your problem fixed with that release file? 

Cheers,
 Michael

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