Bug#701564: apt: when some mirror are unavailable, apt pinning failed

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> wrote:
> I've several mirror in my apt/source.d. When some of them are
> unavailable, suddenly apt-get propose to upgrade some package
> to experimental version, even if it should not:

I assume the unavailable repositories include the experimental ones
for which the pinning is "ignored"?

I guess APT kills InReleases in some situations even if it claims that
it has kept them back and will use "the old files".

Could you confirm this with a listing of /var/lib/apt/lists, e.g. with
find /var/lib/apt/lists
?

The output of "apt-cache policy" probably confirms it too in a slightly
different way as it will lack the "release" line for these Packages files.


If you have squeeze available feel free to test it with apt/squeeze
(which doesn't have InRelease) - it should behave as advertised.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies