[Aptitude-devel] Bug#252264: aptitude: explicit selection of less-scored version is sticky

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible


Hi Yann,

2004-06-02 13:47 Yann Dirson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.14.1-2
>Severity: normal
>
>On my sarge box, if I explicitely select for installation a sid version of a
>package that is already uptodate according to sarge, and then later (same
>session, no install run in between) change my mind and reselect the sarge
>version, then aptitude still considers the sid version as being the one to
>install.  IOW, it is the sid version appearing in the "available version"
>column, if I hit '+' the sid version gets selected, and if I insist on
>keeping the sarge version the package appears in the 'get' listing as an
>ordinary package for which a new version is available in sarge, but for
>which upgrade was not requested.
>
>After the other packages get upgraded, and cache gets refreshed, the
>behaviour is back to normal...

I am not sure if I follow 100% the steps here, since the descriptions
are a bit vague and somewhat difficult to parse for me... but I was
trying to upgrade iceweasel to different versions of unstable and
experimental several times and the behaviour was the expected one.  The
version selected for installation was the one that I indicated in every
step, and the candidate version was correctly shown.


Can you still see this happening, and if so please provide a concrete
example?


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