Bug#433624: apt: please allow release pinning for suite and codename fields

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

severity 433624 normal
thanks

 	Hi!

* Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> [2007-07-18 12:03:11 CEST]:
> Please allow pinning for suite and codename fields in Release files.
> 
> But this does not work for lenny and sid, since their release files
> do not have a Version: field. To pin lenny and sid, I would need to
> pin for Suite and/or Codename, which does not seem to be possible as
> documented in apt_preferences(5).

 The manpage apt_preferences(5) claims for a long while now already that
pinning for codename is expected to work with n= - unfortunately that
has no effect at all. So this isn't a wishlist but rather a quite
unfortunate bug. :/

 Thanks,
Rhonda