Bug#625212: apt: pinning: please allow wildcards in Package too

[Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
it would be nice if we can write preferences like:

  Package: php5*
  Pin: version 5.2.*
  Pin-Priority: 1001

that would pin all packages starting with 'php5' with version 5.2.* .

Thanks for considering,
Sandro

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2010.08.28       GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                   1.4.10-4         GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-8         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-10       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii  apt-doc                       0.8.14.1   Documentation for APT
ii  aptitude                      0.6.3-3.2  terminal-based package manager (te
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.8   Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                    0.7.100.1  Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  synaptic                      0.70       Graphical package manager

-- no debconf information