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and subject line Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#701664: Aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 
still ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/*
has caused the Debian Bug report #701664,
regarding Aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 still ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/*
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Package: aptitude
Version : 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1

The content of files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not taken into account
by aptitude. You still need to use /etc/apt/preferences
Following the bug report
#557580<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580>,
this bug is already supposed being resolved by aptituve v0.6.3-3.2:

me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude show aptitude
...
...
me@pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-sid.list
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
me@pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: -100
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude clean
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude update
...
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
...
431 paquets mis à jour, 98 nouvellement installés, 88 à enlever et 20 non
mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de télécharger 296 Mo d'archives. Après dépaquetage, 89,8
Mo seront utilisés.
Voulez-vous continuer ? [Y/n/?] n
Abandon.
me@pc:~$ sudo mv /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list
/etc/apt/preferences
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude clean
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude update
...
me@pc:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
Résolution des dépendances...
Aucun paquet ne va être installé, mis à jour ou enlevé.
0 paquets mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 3 non mis à
jour.
Il est nécessaire de télécharger 0 o d'archives. Après dépaquetage, 0 o
seront utilisés.

Computer information:
me@pc:~$ uname -a
Linux pc 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
me@pc:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.11.3-4
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*Bernard Rosset**
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Version: 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1

Hi Bernard,

Bernard Rosset wrote:
> Always RTFM...

:-)

> The '.list' extension was a mimic of my sources list files, I was
> not thinking it would cause trouble, even though I thought about
> that hypothesis doing it. I get the same problem whether I use
> aptitude or apt-get, the '.' is not tolerated. Strange.

Ok. Thanks for the feedback.

> No bug then, maybe just a feature I consider not being intuitive.

Closing the bug report hence. Feel free to report a wishlist bug
against apt with regards to the file name limitations.

> Thanks for the quick & efficient answer!

You're welcome.

                Regards, Axel
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