Bug#254820: "apt-cache priority pkg" wrong on priorities
Control: tag -1 pending
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:19:29AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.25
> Severity: normal
>
> master@tofu:~$ apt-cache policy initscripts
> initscripts:
> Installed: 2.85-15
> Candidate: 2.85-15
> Package Pin: 2.85-15
> Version Table:
> 2.85-20 1000
> 300 http://server.home.mamane.lu sarge/main Packages
> 200 http://server.home.mamane.lu sid/main Packages
> *** 2.85-15 1000
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> The priority of 2.85-20 is displayed as 1000, but is 300. If it were
> 1000, too, it would be the candidate.
Thank you for your bug report. Sorry it took 11 years to answer. This
will be fixed in the 1.1 release with a more usable output.
>
> In this bug report, the automatically generated "System Information
> says"
> APT prefers testing
> but as my preferences file shows, stable is preferred, second only to
> my own personal apt repository, which is:
> 700 http://debian.home.mamane.lu woody/main Packages
> release v=3.0,o=LEMCorp,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
> origin debian.home.mamane.lu
>
We can't do anything about that, that reports the APT::Default-Release
value.
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