Package: apt Version: 0.5.14 Severity: important With the attached sources.list and apt.conf (sorry, many internal mirrors), the (manually added to the local mirror) Release file from backports.org Release file gets ignored, as shown:
# apt-cache policy |grep -A2 mozilla 500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/mozilla Packages origin debian-mirror.alcove-fr Pinned Packages: If the Cache-Limit is raised from 10M to 100M, and the cache rebuilt, then: # apt-cache policy |grep -A2 mozilla 500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/mozilla Packages release o=backports.org,a=mozilla,l=mozilla,c=main origin debian-mirror.alcove-fr Pinned Packages: -> an error should be signaled on cache updating, or people will loose time hunting for this - especially since all the caching done by apt constantly goes in the way -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.22+nfs-ngroups+preempt+lowlatency-station #1 lun oct 20 12:08:50 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian

