Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
Severity: normal

As discussed at length in debian-user it should be possible to use 
release identifiers like "oldstable", "stable", .. and their actual 
names (sarge, etch, ...) interchangeably throughout all configuration 
files for aptitude.

This is not the case for pinning the Default-Release in 
/etc/apt/apt.conf. If i enter something like:

    APT::Default-Release "etch"

aptitude will not honour this setting, and won't even complain about it.  
It is not intuitive to use actual names in /etc/apt/sources.list as a 
lot of users are instructed right now and not being able to do so when 
setting the default realease.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-21   GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5                5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a          2.0.17-2     type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-21     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none>     (no description available)

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