Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: important
I am tagging this as important because any bug that makes people install
experimental packages unawares is quite problematic :)
$ apt-cache policy libarts1c2a
libarts1c2a:
Installed: 1.4.3-3
Candidate: 1.5.0-3
Version table:
1.5.0-3 0
990 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages
990 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main Packages
1.5.0-2 0
-10 http://mirrors.kernel.org experimental/main Packages
-10 http://ftp.fi.debian.org experimental/main Packages
*** 1.4.3-3 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
However, aptitude does this:
libarts1c2a recommends libarts1-akode
--\ The following actions will resolve this dependency:
-> Upgrade libarts1c2a [1.4.3-3 (now) -> 1.5.0-2 (experimental, experimental)]
-> Keep libarts1c2a at version 1.4.3-3 (now)
-> Remove libarts1c2a [1.4.3-3 (now)]
-> Install libarts1-akode [4:3.5.0-2 (experimental, experimental)]
-> Leave the dependency "libarts1c2a recommends libarts1-akode" unresolved.
i.e it prefers to install the experimental version, even if it is priority
-10. The correct solution is to install libarts1c2a 1.5.0-3, and leave the
dependency unresolved. OR to hold everything. But installing anything that
has a negative priority is a no-no.
For reference, my /etc/apt/preferences is:
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: -10
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.5-debian6+bluesmoke+atapassthru+lm85
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.43 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
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