Bug#879012: I guess "release a=now" superseded 'origin ""'?

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Subject: Bug#879012: I guess "release a=now" superseded 'origin ""'?
From: "Ralph, Kenyon [US] (MS)" <Kenyon.Ralph@ngc.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 20:02:58 +0000
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Reply-to: "kenyon@kenyonralph.com" <kenyon@kenyonralph.com>, 879012@bugs.debian.org
References: <150833059311.26441.14292060795344205976.reportbug@hephaestus.lan.complete.org>

Indeed, "release a=now" seems to have superseded 'origin ""' for matching locally-installed packages. Using origin with an empty string is shown twice in apt_preferences(5), but it appears to not work anymore, whereas "release a=now" does work.

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Kenyon Ralph

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