Package: apt Version: 0.7.19 Severity: normal
I see in apt_preferences(5) the following; but it looks abrupt and it doesn't make sense. Is there something missing ? APT's Default Priority Assignments If there is no preferences file or if there is no entry in the file that applies to a particular version then the priority assigned to that version is the priority of the distribution to which that version belongs. It is possible to single out a distribution, "the target release", which receives a higher priority than other distributions do by default. The target release can be set on the apt-get command line or in the APT configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf. Note that this has precedence over any general priority you set in the /etc/apt/preferences file described later, but not over specifically pinned packages. For example, apt-get install -t testing some-package APT::Default-Release "stable"; If the target release has been specified then APT uses the following algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package. Assign: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP) (ignored: LC_ALL set to ja_JP.eucJP) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org