[Aptitude-devel] Bug#575999: aptitude: pinning and -t behaves differently than apt-get

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hello

Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> I am trying to get the new kde 4.4.2 installed with aptitude, and am
> noticing that aptitude behaves differently than apt-get when it comes
> to selecting packages.
>
> $ apt-cache policy konsole
> konsole:
>   Installed: 4:4.3.4-1
>   Candidate: 4:4.4.2-0rc1
>   Version table:
>      4:4.4.2-0rc1 0
>         501 http://qt-kde.debian.net experimental-snapshots/main Packages
>  *** 4:4.3.4-1 0
>         500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
>         -10 http://ftp2.de.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> [… apt-get installs 4.4; aptitude installs 4.3]

This appears to be fixed now.  I guess when #557580 (ignores
preferences.d/*) was fixed in 0.6.3-3.2.

Can you confirm that the problem is resolved, also whether the pinning
for experimental on that machine was under preferences.d?

Regards

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/575999
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/557580