On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 05:23:01PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> That means that testing-security does not work, as testing-security is
> not testing and apt will complain.
> 
> Ubuntu would use:
> 
> Codename: bullseye
> Suite: bullseye-security
> 
> but that would not help you either for a= pins, only for n pins (or ones
> without an a= or n=). I also find it super annoying as bullseye pins now
> apply to bullseye-security, and I can't pin bullseye release. It also breaks
> testing-security as a name.
> 
> That said, we might want a way to specify more aliases. Having two names
> for a distribution is severily limiting, especially if we want to allow
> people to specify versions instead.
> 
> Maybe we should have more Release file fields (Codename-Alias, Suite-Alias,
> Alias)?

Maybe we should have a Pocket field, and then you'd have

Codename: bullseye
Suite: testing
Pocket: security

and you could pin a=testing, p=security.

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