Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.8-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
We read
-t <release>, --target-release <release>
Set the release from which packages should be installed. For
instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages
from the experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise.
This will affect the default candidate version of packages
according to the rules described in apt_preferences(5).
This corresponds to the configuration item APT::Default-Release.
Mention
If the packages to be installed are already installed, this
cannot be used to change their versions! [BUG!]
# apt-cache policy libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18:
Installed: 2.17.4-1
Candidate: 2.17.4-1
Version table:
*** 2.17.4-1 990
990 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian experimental/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.16.5-1 500
500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
# aptitude -t unstable install libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 is already installed at the requested version
(2.17.4-1)
The "requested version" is the "unstable" version, not what the output
above says, so... BUG! (else why did the user use -t?)
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