Bug#746200: apt: Apt-get install doesn't respect /target_release

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 06:15:21PM -0500, Wayne Rowcliffe wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.0.2
> Severity: normal

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> With the recent upgrade of apt to 1.0, /target_release flags do not seem
> to have any effect.
> 
> For my particuluar situation, I am trying to upgrade gnome to use 3.12.
> This involves pulling packages from both experimental and unstable. So I
> attempt to do: `apt-get install gnome-shell/experimental
> empathy/unstable`, etc. However, when I do this apt seems to completely
> ignore the flags and instead tries to install the versions from testing.
> 
> I have used this method many times in the past to specify a set of
> packages from different releases that won't conflict with each other.
> Since the upgrade to apt 1.0, I am not able to.
[..]

Could you include the output of same examples where it fails for you
please? We have some testcases that cover this feature and they are
still working, so it would be good to know some more details how to
reproduce the issue.

Thanks,
 Michael