Package: apt-clone Version: 0.4.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Wanted to clone a preconfigured system where the source does use 1 package and 3-4 dependencies from newer release only by using apt-pinning, aswell some packages from 3rd party sources valid for sources current release * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? followed the instructions to create apt-clone archive, which perfectly saved preferences file and sources lists, tried to apt-clone restore .tar.gz * What was the outcome of this action? first attempt it ignored apt-pinning and then pulled stuff preferable from newer release tampering with preference file lead to apt-clone not installing any package at all because apt was feared of breaking stuff * What outcome did you expect instead? restore apt-preferences file and install packages as they were selected on source e.g. source had package 1 from stable so install that from stable aswell, package2 from unstable so install that from unstable aswell ... -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (499, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.83-1-pve (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-clone depends on: ii lsb-release 9.20161125 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-apt 1.4.0~beta3 Versions of packages apt-clone recommends: ii dpkg-repack 1.43 apt-clone suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded