Bug#571312: aptitude ignores preferences.d directory

forcemerge 557580 571312 thanks also sprach Arno Schuring [2010.03.27.1912 +0100]: > Could this be a duplicate of #557580? Indeed, it really looks like it. I am merging. Daniel, I would like to make ths RC, since preferences.d is documented in apt_preferences(5) as a integral aspect of APT, whi

Bug#571312: aptitude ignores preferences.d directory

Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: normal Could this be a duplicate of #557580? I ran into this very same issue today (well, finally noticed it today). It appears a temporary fix is to re-create the single-file preferences: r...@neminis:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/* > /etc/apt/prefer