Package: aptitude X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@gnui.org Version: 0.8.13-3 Severity: normal
Dear maintainer,
aptitude(8) is unwilling to unset an apt.conf(5) option for a session when
instructed to do so with `-o` flag and there does not seem to be any other way
to do that.
## Steps to reproduce
$ aptitude -o APT::Default-Release='' show
-o requires an argument of the form key=value, got APT::Default-Release=
(judging by a result of any more meaningful command we can conclude that it
indeed has not been unset).
## Expected results
aptitude(8) does allow to unset an option temporarily, and uses the
above-mentioned syntax for that, since this is what tools from apt package
understand already:
$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian rc-buggy/main amd64 Packages
release
o=Debian,a=experimental,n=experimental,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
origin deb.debian.org
990 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
origin deb.debian.org
Pinned packages:
$ apt-cache -o APT::Default-Release='' policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian rc-buggy/main amd64 Packages
release
o=Debian,a=experimental,n=experimental,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
origin deb.debian.org
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,n=sid,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
origin deb.debian.org
Pinned packages:
signature.asc
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