Bug#633784: marked as done (apt policy weights mysteriously different (990) for squeeze stable)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #633784,
regarding apt policy weights mysteriously different (990) for squeeze stable
to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
Severity: important
This is merely a mystery to resolve for me, and I'm sure someone can tell
me the source for how the policy weight on squeeze stable has become 990.
However, I never set this weight nor played with any pinning,
so I would regard the assignment of a non-default weight as a potential bug.
Maybe if you can help me find where it is being set, we can
determine the source of this happening.
I did strace on 'apt-cache policy' and still could not spot the file
where the weight of 990 is being assigned to squeeze stable.
The impact to me is squeeze-updates are not coming down the pipe
unless I do something like comment out the squeeze stable line
in sources.list.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Default-Release "squeeze";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections "";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/";
Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg";
Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Dir::Log::History "history.log";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently "";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "~$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.disabled$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.bak$";
Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
CommandLine "";
CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
#deb http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
#
#
#
#deb http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian-multimedia/ squeeze main non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian-multimedia/ squeeze main
#deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian squeeze main
#deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian squeeze main
#deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
#deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
#deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ squeeze main
#deb-src http://mirror.its.dal.ca/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.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 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 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:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
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 1.15.8.11 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hi Donald Teed,
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 16:13, Donald Teed <donald.teed@gmail.com> wrote:
> APT::Default-Release "squeeze";
This setting is the cause for the 990 pinning.
I don't know who has set this - are you sure you didn't?
The setting is included either in /etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
It is at least not set by the apt package so the bug is wrong here
as it is not a bug but a correctly implemented feature.
So i am closing it here, but feel free to reopen and
reassign it to the real offender if you find him.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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