[Aptitude-devel] Bug#701664: Bug#701664: Aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 still ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/*

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Bernard,

Bernard Rosset wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version : 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1
> 
> The content of files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not taken into account
> by aptitude. You still need to use /etc/apt/preferences
> Following the bug report
> #557580<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580>,
> this bug is already supposed being resolved by aptituve v0.6.3-3.2:
[...]
> me at pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list

According to the documentation, a file with this file name will be
ignored by apt, too, so it should be correct if aptitude ignores it:

>From apt_preferences(5):

       Note that the files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d directory are
       parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
       following naming convention: The files have no or "pref" as
       filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen
       (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they
       will be silently ignored.

So please check:

* Does "apt-get" / "apt-cache policy" also ignore that file?
* Does aptitude no more ignore the file if you remove the .list file
  name suffix?

		Regards, Axel
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