Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: normal
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Faheem Mitha <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: If source for target specified to apt-get install does not exist, then apt installs stable version Bcc: Faheem Mitha <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: reportbug 4.12.6 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:47:14 -0400 Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: normal It seems to me that in this situation, apt should exit with an error, since the squeeze-backports version requested is not available, but instead the stable version is installed. faheem@bulldog[default branch:rev 1]:/usr/local/src/ccl-1.8$ sudo apt-get install dh-lisp -t squeeze-backports Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dh-lisp 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not upgraded. Need to get 10.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 102 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main dh-lisp all 0.6.6 [10.1 kB] Fetched 10.1 kB in 0s (22.2 kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package dh-lisp. (Reading database ... 161556 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dh-lisp (from .../archives/dh-lisp_0.6.6_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dh-lisp (0.6.6) ... faheem@bulldog[default branch:rev 1]:/usr/local/src/ccl-1.8$ apt-cache policy dh-lisp dh-lisp: Installed: 0.6.6 Candidate: 0.6.6 Version table: 0.7.1 0 50 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages *** 0.6.6 0 500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Cache-Limit "156777216"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/"; Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d"; Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg"; Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Media ""; Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; Dir::Log::History "history.log"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently ""; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "~$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.disabled$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.bak$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; Unattended-Upgrade ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "${distro_id} stable"; Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "${distro_id} ${distro_codename}-security"; CommandLine ""; CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=wheezy Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 1 Package: * Pin: release a=snapshot.debian.net Pin-Priority: 1 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:10]/ etch contrib main #deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main non-free contrib #deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib #deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib #deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free #deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free #deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ #deb-src http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/ deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/ deb-src http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/ deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ squeeze-backports main contrib non-free deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-1 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2~bpo60+1 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.7-20111231-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.7-20111231-1 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.1~bpo60+2 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii wajig 2.0.47 simplified Debian package manageme -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
