Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Wrapping your head around how the /etc/apt/preferences files work, especially with all the numeric values, is a real pain. A lot of users end up asking on debian-user for examples of such files. The two most common things they want to do are surely:
* pin to testing, but allow per-package upgrades to unstable * pin to stable, but allow per-package upgrades to testing I guess there are probably other things people often want to do, but I can't think of them offhand. Of course one example file in /usr/doc/apt/examples should suffice for both of these. Here is my go at it, based on a file I've been using for some time. X-Comment: This example /etc/apt/preferences file causes the system to X-Comment: track testing (or whatever is specified after "a="). Packages X-Comment: may be upgraded individually to their unstable versions, and X-Comment: apt will then track the unstable version. See apt_preferences(5) X-Comment: for details. X-Comment: (Remember to list both testing and unstable in your sources.list.) Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -10
