On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 21:12:42 +0100, Javi Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > El 31 de octubre de 2015 20:17:41 CET, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> > escribió: > >Brian [2015-10-31 18:49:59Z] wrote: > > > >> Here are two verifiable facts: > >> > >> brian@sid:~$ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority > >> Priority: important > > > >Package's priority can be overruled by... some system unknown to me. > >This is Debian 8: > > > > $ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority > > Priority: important > > > > $ apt-cache show aptitude | grep Priority > > Priority: standard > > You can see when priority was overruled > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758561#12
This is a very good pointer. It doesn't explain why two different tools give different answers but it does get to the heart of the matter. Additional reading is at https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/05/msg00156.html To confirm the OP's experience the debian-stretch-DI-alpha4-i386-netinst.iso does not contain aptitude.