Bug#544017: apt: add /etc/apt/preferences.d/ like there is sources.list.d/

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.22.2
Severity: wishlist


Please add pinning configuration possiblity via separate files
under

	/etc/apt/preferences.d/

The files would be read in alphabetical order, so a numbering sheme
for files would need to be recommended in the sources.list(5) manual
page. (NN<NAME> => like 00first, 10second ...)

This would be analogous feature to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.9-23     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.1-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                   <none>         (no description available)
ii  aptitude                  0.4.11.11-1+b2 terminal-based package manager
ii  bzip2                     1.0.5-3        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                  1.15.3.1       Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                      4.43-14        Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                0.7.12.1       Python interface to libapt-pkg

-- no debconf information