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Bug#203816: marked as done (/usr/bin/apt-get: maybe return warning if no sources for -t)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:30:25 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #137433,
regarding /usr/bin/apt-get: maybe return warning if no sources for -t
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.8
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/apt-get

maybe at least warn if -t can't find any lists for the version the
user gave

!From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
!Subject: Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions
!Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
!
!On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:34, Dan Jacobson wrote:
!> > Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something
!> > that Debian can't help the admin with.
!> 
!> [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.]
!> 
!> Ron> Why not use "-t"?  I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid.
!> Ron> The "-t" makes it very easy to do this:
!> Ron> # apt-get -t testing upgrade
!> Ron> # apt-get -t unstable install evolution mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
!> 
!> when I do apt-get dist-upgrade or upgrade, I always see the same
!> results, "-t testing" or not.  Perhaps because all I have is sid stuff
!> in /etc/apt/sources.list. Perhaps a bug.
!
!Hmmm, unless I'm reading you wrong:
!Since all you have in sources.list is sid, shouldn't you expect "-t
!testing" to have no effect?
!
!Of course, I did not know that you only have sid in your sources.list...

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.8.15.3

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:57:07PM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Shouldn't apt-get give a warning when it ignores you?  An example I just tried:
> 
> >apt-get install -t unstable ssh
> 
> (because a new exploit was just discovered in OpenSSH).  
> apt-get happily grabs a package and upgrades, without warning me that in fact I
> have forgotten to uncomment the unstable line in sources.list.  It uses the
> testing version, even though I asked specifically for unstable.  I only discovered
> this by using dpkg --status to compare the version installed with the desired
> unstable version.

That was fixed some time ago for APT::Default-Release and -t, so I am
closing this now. It still does not warn you about non-matching preferences
files, but that is now a bit out of scope of this bug report.

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