On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:42:11PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > 2009/1/19 Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>: > >> Daniel Burrows wrote: > >>> What I'm wondering about is this: why doesn't he have a candidate > >>> version for libjack0? He's running a testing system and has two > >>> perfectly good available versions, including the installed version. > >>> Shouldn't apt at least pick the installed version as the candidate? > >> I think it definitely should. However I cannot reproduce the problem in my > >> unstable system, so a new bug report with the attached dpkg status file would > >> be helpful for anyone who will try to fix this problem. > > > > As I already wrote, you should be able to reproduce this by setting the pin to > > a non-existing release. And it only happens when the priority is >=1000. > ^^^^^^ > This is most useful info. Thanks for clarifying. > > Anyway, a bug report to BTS is encouraged to not forget about this strange > issue. Should I write it myself or whoever other wants? I would write something like the following: -- START OF MAIL In case a package is pinned with a priority of >= 1000 to a non-existing release, no installation candidate can be found. Example ------- /etc/apt/preferences: Package: apt Pin: release x Pin-Priority: 1000 jak@hp:~/Desktop$ LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.7.21~exp1 Candidate: (none) Package pin: (not found) Version table: *** 0.7.21~exp1 1000 400 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.7.20 1000 990 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages If you use 999 it works: jak@hp:~/Desktop$ LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.7.21~exp1 Candidate: 0.7.21~exp1 Package pin: (not found) Version table: *** 0.7.21~exp1 999 400 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.7.20 999 990 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages -- END OF MAIL If this information is sufficient for the bug report, I would submit it as a bug report. -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: juliank@jabber.org Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/
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