Julian, thank you for your work for Ubuntu and Debian. But may I
suggest you are a bit more careful marking invalid when there are at
least a good half dozen people telling you here and in the Debian BTS
that there is a problem? It's always safe to ask for more feedback
before pulling the trigger.
This is of course a very valid bug. Here is the proof. I say that as
somebody who is always struggling to get pinning right, though. It's a
great tool but not always user-friendly and idiot-proof ;-) If I am not
mistaken, you are struggling with pinning yourself ;-) Your example is
actually not really showing anything. 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu7 would have been
preferred and installed over 1.7.4p4-5ubuntu6 anyway without any
pinning.
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/canonical-partner
Package: acroread
Pin: origin archive.canonical.com
Pin-Priority: 10
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.3.3-0.0
Candidate: 9.4.2-0lucid1
Package pin: 9.4.2-0lucid1
Version table:
9.4.2-0lucid1 10
500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Packages
*** 9.3.3-0.0 10
200 http://private-repo/deb-private/ ./ Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ sudo sed -i s/acroread/\*/ /etc/apt/preferences.d/canonical-partner
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/canonical-partner
Package: *
Pin: origin archive.canonical.com
Pin-Priority: 10
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.3.3-0.0
Candidate: 9.3.3-0.0
Version table:
9.4.2-0lucid1 0
10 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Packages
*** 9.3.3-0.0 0
200 http://private-repo/deb-private/ ./ Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/canonical-partner
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.3.3-0.0
Candidate: 9.4.2-0lucid1
Version table:
9.4.2-0lucid1 0
500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Packages
*** 9.3.3-0.0 0
200 http://private-repo/deb-private/ ./ Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
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pinning a specific package does not work
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