On 11/04/2026 2:16 pm, Rob van der Putten wrote:
Using pinning to block an upgrade to 'unstable' instead of 'sid' does
indeed work;
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: -1
Previously I used 'Pin: release a=sid', which doesn't work.
I agree, it is a bit subtle point. You may get parameters for pinning of
specific repositories from
apt policy
[...]
100 http://deb.debian.org/debian forky/main amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=testing,n=forky,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
origin deb.debian.org
[...]
(without package names as arguments)