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

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2010/6/10 Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>:
>  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. :/

Could you provide a non-working example please?

It was more or less the first thing i did in APT and should be working
since 0.7.21 (released on 29 Jun 2009). The bug looks like an unmerged
duplicate of #97564 which was closed with this upload…

At least the following works:
Package: *
Pin: release n=sid
Pin-Priority: 300

Pin: release sid will also work - but a=sid not as a= stands for archive,
so make sure to use the right release string.
Make also sure that the archive you want to pin actually provides
these values - you can find that out with "apt-cache policy"
(yes, without a parameter).


Best regards,

David Kalnischkies