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Bug#153661: marked as done (ftp.debian.org: APT Pinning for "woody" is broken. "3.0" works)

Your message dated Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:39:07 +0200
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and subject line Fixed: Support pinning and targeting by codename
has caused the Debian Bug report #419188,
regarding ftp.debian.org: APT Pinning for "woody" is broken. "3.0" works
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-20
Severity: normal

APT Pinning to "woody" doesn't work.
Pinning to "3.0" works fine.

apt-cache policy lists:

http://ftp.de.debian.org woody/main Packages
  release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages
  release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=updates/main

It would be nice to be able to pin to "woody", too.
at least security.debian.org is inconsistent right now.

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Version: 0.7.22

Thanks for your reports and especially thanks for the patch Ryan Murray!
The patch was a good base but is now a bit more general
to not only support codenames in pin-files.

The issue should be fixed in 0.7.22:
extracted from the changelog:

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * [ABI break] Allow pinning by codename (closes: #97564)

Note: The char chosen to represent the codeName is n=
a= is as before for archive. Without a a= or n= both are checked.

So the line:
Pin: release n=squeeze
is equal to
Pin: release squeeze

See also apt_preference (5) for details on pinning to a codename.

This commit also made it possible to use codenames in
--target-release and in pkg/codename

So the commands
apt-get install awesome/unstable
and
apt-get install awesome/sid
are equal and work now as expected.



Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies

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