Bug#825113: apt: APT's specific preference affects all available versions

[Александр Цамутали <astsmtl@yandex.ru>]

On 23.05.2016 22:19, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 18:49 +0000, Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
> > root@ed69a0989664:/etc/apt# cat preferences.d/xscreensaver
> > Package: xscreensaver
> > Pin: origin n=jessie-updates
> > Pin-Priority: -1
>
> That's not a valid pin definition. "origin" is a hostname, you want
> "Pin: release n=jessie-updates".

Sorry for the typo, here is correct version:

root@ed69a0989664:/etc/apt# cat preferences.d/xscreensaver
Package: xscreensaver
Pin: release n=jessie-updates
Pin-Priority: -1
root@ed69a0989664:/etc/apt# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
     release v=8,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=jessie-updates,l=Debian,c=main
     origin httpredir.debian.org
 500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
     release v=8.4,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
     origin httpredir.debian.org
Pinned packages:
     xscreensaver -> 5.30-1+deb8u2
root@ed69a0989664:/etc/apt# apt-cache policy xscreensaver
xscreensaver:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Package pin: 5.30-1+deb8u2
  Version table:
     5.30-1+deb8u2 -1
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main 
amd64 Packages
     5.30-1+deb8u1 -1
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
root@ed69a0989664:/etc/apt# apt-get install -s xscreensaver > /dev/null 
; echo $?
E: Package 'xscreensaver' has no installation candidate
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Александр Цамутали