Still affects aptitude 0.4.11.11 on Ubuntu 10.04 as of 24 Mar 2010. It just merrily munched my custom-rebuilt netatalk package, knocking all the Mac OS 9 systems required for critical legacy apps off the network. Ouch!
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/netatalk Package: netatalk Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 1001 $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: netatalk 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: netatalk The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: libpam-cracklib rc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/831kB of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] -- Aptitude ignores preferences.d/* https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
