Such a bug does not exist, and to my knowledge never existed. As we can
see in the following example, the pin of 9999 is respected correctly.
(natty)root@jak-thinkpad:/home/jak# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/sudo
Package: sudo
Pin: version 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7
Pin-Priority: 9999
(natty)root@jak-thinkpad:/home/jak# apt-cache policy sudo
sudo:
Installed: 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu6
Candidate: 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7
Package pin: 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7
Version table:
1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7 9999
500 http://localhost/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
*** 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu6 9999
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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Title:
pinning a specific package does not work
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