Your message dated Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:23:26 +0200 with message-id <CAAZ6_fBGxYHwq7ONQkww13XWq+D56D7TGhH3DtzRb4rH807=2...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Close: apt: Pinning seems to be broken has caused the Debian Bug report #308445, regarding apt: Unable to install packages from experimental to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt Version: 0.6.40.1 Severity: normal I was trying to install the GTK packages from experimental, and was unable to. I probably made a stupid mistake; but since I usually have no problem installing experimental packages, I prefer filling a bug-report in case there really is an issue. Let's take the example of the package libgtk2.0-bin: $ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-bin: Installed: 2.6.9-1 Candidate: 2.6.9-1 Version table: 2.8.0-1 0 1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ Packages *** 2.6.9-1 0 500 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So a new package is available in experimental, and apt-cache knows about it. I also verified that the packages are indeed present on the ftp server where they are expected to be. But still I am unable to install the packages: $ grep Archive /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Release Archive: experimental $ apt-get install libgtk2.0-bin/experimental Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Release 'experimental' for 'libgtk2.0-bin' was not found $ apt-get -t experimental install libgtk2.0-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done libgtk2.0-bin is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Thanks, and sorry if I messed somewhere. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r2 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20001207)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ #deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-6 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, initially the bug is about a change in the distribution of experimental in 2005 (it is nowadays a "real" incomplete release pocket - not a flat archive). Later it talks about the documentation which changed over the course of the last few years, was recently reviewed by d-l10n-english and to my mail three years ago I received no answer. So i am closing this bug now for good. If you think this is wrong, feel free to reopen it. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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