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
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