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Bug#594435: Quoted strings in pin specifications do not work



Package: apt
Version: 0.7.25.3
Severity: important

The *only* example of pinning by origin in apt_preferences(5) is:

               Package: *
               Pin: origin ""
               Pin-Priority: 999

This implies that strings can be double-quoted and that an empty
string must be.  In fact, double-quoted strings do not match their
contents; the quote characters are presumably treated literally.

Ben.

-- Package-specific info:

-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2010.08.15 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-9  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-9    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude                      0.6.3-3    terminal-based package manager (te
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-4    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.4   Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                    0.7.96.1   Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  synaptic                      0.70~pre1  Graphical package manager

-- no debconf information



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