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Bug#211802: marked as done (APT::Default-Release is ignored)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:30:25 +0200
with message-id <20150814002924.GA17756@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#137433: apt: -t option fails to give warning when ignoring you
has caused the Debian Bug report #137433,
regarding APT::Default-Release is ignored
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4

Hello

I'm using woody. But sometimes I want to install a package which is not
available for woody, I've added sarge and sid sources to my sources.list
an created an apt.conf containing this line:
        APT::Default-Release "woody"

When I tried to upgrade my system apt wants to upgrade more than 200
packages. My system had been upgraded about five minutes ago so thought
this cannot be OK and abroted.
After a some googleing I recognized that everyone uses "stable" or
"testing" insted of "woody", "potato", "sarge". So I tried "stable" and
it works.

Why does "woody" not work there? Using woody insted of stable works
everywhere else.

I also tried
        APT::Default-Release "nonexistent"
and the same happens.

I think apt should output at least an error message if someone enters an
wrong Release.

At last: IMO woody is <> stable because if sarge will be realeased,
stable will point to sarge and all systems will be updated. So saying 
using "stable" as Default-Realease is not an satisfying solution.

Bye bye
Anton

--- End Message ---
--- 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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