Bug#437930: The non-default release (eg, experimental) sould have a priority bigger than 100
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.6
Severity: important
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I have unstable and experimental enabled in sources.list, and on /etc/apt/apt.conf I have the line APT::Default-Release "unstable";
As you see bellow, experimental is given a priority of 1, and I think it is against common sense.
If I *consciously* install a package from experimental, I would like to *be aware of, and upgrade to, all the updates that come into experimental* before the package comes into unstable. When the package comes into unstable, apt will forget about the experimental version of the package.
By the way, the experimental release of debian-multimedia.org is given a priority of 500 and I find it OK. What I do not understand is the priority 1 for the experimental release of the official Debian packages.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686
Debian Release: lenny/sid
990 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
990 unstable ftp.uk.debian.org
500 stable dl.google.com
500 experimental www.debian-multimedia.org
1 experimental ftp.uk.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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libc6 (>= 2.6-1) | 2.6.1-1
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516) | 1:4.2.1-3
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516) | 4.2.1-3
debian-archive-keyring | 2007.07.31
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