Hi all, It seems difficult to know if the changes which were made had any difference or not.
For instance if you look when I had reported the bug few packages had shown up therein (On 30th June 2014) :- anacron/testing,now 2.3-20 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.3-20] autoconf/testing,now 2.69-6 all [installed,upgradable to: 2.69-6] This is from 30th June 2014. >From the list of today those packages are not present. BUT, probably both these packages had a different version in testing and sid/unstable on that date. anacron for instance was released to unstable/sid on 21st June and urgency=low as the priority so it definitely came to testing on 31st June at the earliest . autoconf too was released to unstable/sid on 29th June 2014 and has urgency=low as priority, so it would have come to testing on 7th July (if my calculations are right). On top of it the mirror I use http://debian.ec.as6453.net/ is usually 12-24 hrs. behind the main mirrors ( a strategic decision at my end.) I usually take a look at #debian-next before doing upgrades to see if something seriously is broken (as in X.org or something which would not let me boot or show screen or something.) So, apparently what apt list --upgradable is doing is seeing if some package has an upgrade and doesn't take into account the preferences listed in /etc/apt/preferences. $ apt-show-versions -a acpid acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-2 install ok installed acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-2 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net No testing-updates version acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-3 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net No experimental version acpid:amd64/jessie 1:2.0.22-2 uptodate $ apt-show-versions -a adequate adequate:all 0.11.6 install ok installed adequate:all 0.11.6 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net No testing-updates version adequate:all 0.12 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net No experimental version adequate:all/jessie 0.11.6 uptodate my /etc/apt/preferences has testing as a priority while both sid and experimental have value of 1. Lastly both anacron and autoconf has no upgrades either in sid or experimental hence they are not showing up. $ apt-show-versions -a autoconf autoconf:all 2.69-7 install ok installed autoconf:all 2.69-7 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net No testing-updates version autoconf:all 2.69-7 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net No experimental version autoconf:all/jessie 2.69-7 uptodate $ apt-show-versions -a anacron anacron:amd64 2.3-21 install ok installed anacron:amd64 2.3-21 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net No testing-updates version anacron:amd64 2.3-21 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net No experimental version anacron:amd64/jessie 2.3-21 uptodate Hope this gives bit more info. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org