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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