Pin priority of packages

[John L Fjellstad]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> Are you sure kubuntu did that?  I don't have one.  I think I can
> reliably say I never had 99release, because I actually have a
> 10release~ still hanging around (from breezy days - and when I was
> messing with pinning) - though I thought that I created that.

Hmm... I'm almost certain I didn't create it, but when I did a dpkg -S
on the file, there are no packages claiming responsibility for it
(although it might not mean much, if it go created in the
post-installation script).

Still, from what I gather from the apt_preferences man pages, given two
archives A and B, where A has priority 500 and B priority 900, and
package x has a higher version in archive A than archive B (and higher
version that the version installed), then the package should have been
upgraded.  It wasn't in my place.

I might install an old package to see if I can reproduce the problem.

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John L. Fjellstad
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