Control: tag -1 pending On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 04:25:58PM +0800, Manphiz wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 > Severity: wishlist > > The man page of apt_preferences lacks the explanation when priority > equals 0. Here is an excerpt: > > 0 < P <=100 > causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed > version of the package > > P < 0 > prevents the version from being installed > > As we can see, the above didn't mention what would happen when P=0. > Seems at least an incompletion in documentation. According to the > changelog from 0.7.0 to 0.7.2 there is no mention about this issue, so I > assume this problem applies to 0.7.2 too.
That's not really a bug, that's intended. Pin-Priority: 0 has undefined behavior. And we warn for it. In practice, it will probably simply disable specific pinning and force the priority of a package to be determined by the maximum of all sources it is contained in. But it's undefined behavior. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
