Bug#405262: pinning broken *again* (?)
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.25.1
Severity: normal
I concur with Amit that the current behaviour is quite unintuitive and
frustrating. In my case (using Sid) I've been able to avoid using the
``Default-Release`` altogether...
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
## <XNX by="ivan" date="2010-01-24">
## Vegeu `/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local-default-release`.
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
## Vegeu `/etc/apt/preferences.d/99local-debian-multimedia`.
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
##-deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090413-22:20]/ lenny main
##-
##-deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
##-deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
##-
##-deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
##-deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
##-
##-deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
##-deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
## </XNX>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.1.5-1 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.93 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.63 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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