On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:21:01 +0100 Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your response.

You are welcome!

> 
> But: how does pinning help? I don't want it to become permanently pinned.

Each pin is automatically removed by a daily cron job, as soon as the
bug is fixed in the package version available for installation/upgrade.

> Only for the current action (dist-upgrade for instance) I want the package
> pinned... Suppose I do a dist-upgrade again a few days later, and the bug
> is fixed, then I want to include that package in the upgrade automatically,
> without worrying about pins.

And indeed you usually do not have to worry about pins.
As I said, please take a look at the documentation, whenever you have
doubts.

Bye.

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