[Aptitude-devel] [aptitude-gtk] errors

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:44:48AM +0100, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> was heard to say:
> $ apt-cache policy libjack0
> libjack0:
>   Installed: 0.116.1-3
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Package pin: (not found)
>   Version table:
>  *** 0.116.1-3 1000
>         500 ftp://ftp.debian.nl unstable/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      0.109.2-5 1000
>         990 ftp://ftp.debian.nl testing/main Packages

  The apt developers says that you might have a pin in
/etc/apt/preferences that refers to a release which doesn't exist (for
instance, "lenny" or "sid").  That can apparently cause oddities like
the above example.

  Daniel