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) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]