Bug#847983: apt: Sid Apt-Pinning ignoring other Release than Experimental
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:43:35AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2016-12-12 20:25, Perl wrote:
> > * What led up to the situation?
> > I noticed, since long time ago, that I was not anymore able to use
> > Apt-Pinning for installing packages from Stable and Testing Releases.
> > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> > ineffective)?
> > Everytime I try to use "APT-Pinning", I do not get what I want.
> > Even if I try /testing or -t testing, or any Release other than
> > Experimental, I only get error or Experimental list of packages.
> > Finally, apt-cache policy only return Sid and Experimental
> > packages.
> > * What was the outcome of this action?
> > If I try
> > "apt-cache show -t testing linux-image-amd64"
> > OR
> > "apt-cache show linux-image-amd64/testing"
> > I get this with apt-get:
> > E: Release 'testing' for 'linux-image-amd64' was not found
> > E: No packages found
>
> Well, the only testing sources.list entries listed in your report are:
>
> > #Testing
> > deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> > deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> So I'm not sure where you're expecting apt to find information about
> *binary* packages in testing from.
I agree with this statement and I think we can close this bug because of it.
Cheers,
Wesley
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