Bug#429912: apt_preferences: lacks explanation of priority 0
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: wishlist
The man page of apt_preferences lacks the explanation when priority
equals 0. Here is an excerpt:
0 < P <=100
causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed
version of the package
P < 0
prevents the version from being installed
As we can see, the above didn't mention what would happen when P=0.
Seems at least an incompletion in documentation. According to the
changelog from 0.7.0 to 0.7.2 there is no mention about this issue, so I
assume this problem applies to 0.7.2 too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.02.19-0.1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070609-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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