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Bug#324764: marked as done (apt: Unable to install packages from experimental)

Your message dated Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:23:26 +0200
with message-id <CAAZ6_fBGxYHwq7ONQkww13XWq+D56D7TGhH3DtzRb4rH807=2A@mail.gmail.com>
and subject line Close: apt: Pinning seems to be broken
has caused the Debian Bug report #308445,
regarding apt: Unable to install packages from experimental
to be marked as done.

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308445: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308445
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.40.1
Severity: normal


I was trying to install the GTK packages from experimental, and was 
unable to. I probably made a stupid mistake; but since I usually have no 
problem installing experimental packages, I prefer filling a bug-report 
in case there really is an issue.

Let's take the example of the package libgtk2.0-bin:

$ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-bin:
  Installed: 2.6.9-1
  Candidate: 2.6.9-1
  Version table:
     2.8.0-1 0
          1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ Packages
 *** 2.6.9-1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

So a new package is available in experimental, and apt-cache knows about 
it. I also verified that the packages are indeed present on the ftp 
server where they are expected to be. But still I am unable to install 
the packages:

$ grep Archive /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Release
Archive: experimental

$ apt-get install libgtk2.0-bin/experimental
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Release 'experimental' for 'libgtk2.0-bin' was not found

$ apt-get -t experimental install libgtk2.0-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libgtk2.0-bin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


Thanks, and sorry if I messed somewhere.


-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
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::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";

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


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

#deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian project/experimental/main/binary-i386/
#deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.1-6  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.1-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi,

initially the bug is about a change in the distribution of experimental in 2005
(it is nowadays a "real" incomplete release pocket - not a flat archive).

Later it talks about the documentation which changed over the course of the
last few years, was recently reviewed by d-l10n-english and to my mail
three years ago I received no answer. So i am closing this bug now for good.

If you think this is wrong, feel free to reopen it.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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