Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 The preferences mechanism doesn't work at all if there are extraneous spaces at the end of lines, etc. in the config file. This should be documented, at the very least.
-- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bittersweet 2.4.9vp6 #1 SMP Sun Sep 2 14:47:13 PDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010902 The GNU stdc++ library

