Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1experimental1 Severity: normal Hi,
I have pinned unstable to 2000 on my box: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 2000 This is obviously processed correctly: $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.6.43.2exp1 Candidate: 0.6.43.1 Version table: *** 0.6.43.2exp1 0 -10 http://debian.debian.zugschlus.de experimental/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.6.43.1 0 2000 http://debian.debian.zugschlus.de sid/main Packages 0.6.43exp2 0 500 http://zg.debian.zugschlus.de zg/sid/main Packages 0.5.28.6 0 500 http://debian.debian.zugschlus.de sarge/main Packages $ Also, apt-get dist-upgrade plans to do some downgrade: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libslang1 The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: apt apt-utils aptitude exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light eximon4 jed jed-common libapt-pkg-perl libnasl2 libnessus2 python-apt python2.3-apt 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 15 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7200kB of archives. After unpacking 512kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. $ But aptitude doesn't. $ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. $ Additionally, "U" in interactive aptitude doesn't do anything as well. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-4 0.6.43.2exp1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.1-0exp4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1-0exp4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]