[Aptitude-devel] Bug#640731: Wrong priority shown by aptitude -versions

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hi,

2011-09-06 23:31 ygmarchi:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.3-4
>Severity: normal
>
>If I enter at the command line
>
> aptitude versions gnome-control-center
>
>the output is
>
>p   1:2.30.1-3                testing,unstable
>990
>p   1:3.0.2-1                 experimental
>100
>
>But given my /etc/apt/preferences which is
>
>Package: empathy* fglrx* *glx* gir1* gnome* gstreamer0.10* gvfs* python-gmenu
>libclutter* libgdu-gtk0  libgl* nautilus* network-manager* telepathy*
>Pin: release a=experimental
>Pin-Priority: 992
>
>Package: empathy* fglrx* *glx* gir1* gnome* gstreamer0.10* gvfs* python-gmenu
>libclutter* libgdu-gtk0  libgl* nautilus* network-manager* telepathy*
>Pin: release a=unstable
>Pin-Priority: 991
>
>Package: *
>Pin: release a=testing
>Pin-Priority: 990
>
>Package: *
>Pin: release a=unstable
>Pin-Priority: 500
>
>Package: *
>Pin: release a=experimental
>Pin-Priority: 100
>
>(if you suspect that I wanted to try the gnome shell, you're right!), I would
>expect the experimental priority to be 992.
>
>In fact, if I do install the package with the command
>
>aptitude install gnome-control-center
>
>the experimental version is installed, which I actually appreciate.
>
>So I think that the output of the versions option is broken and misleading.

Thanks for the report.  This is now fixed and will be present in the
next release, marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>