package cupt libcupt-perl
retitle 586347 document not handling 'specific/general' pin difference
severity 586347 minor
thanks

Hi Julian,

Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> There appear to be two problems here:
>  1) The pin for the debian-multimedia.org version is not applied
Yes. Cupt does not differentiate 'specific' and 'general' pins. I will not fix
this intentionally, the dividing is unintuitive ('*' falls under 'one or more
specified packages', plus Cupt recognizes patterns like 'mplayer*').

>  2) The pin for the Debian version is -1009 although o=Debian is
>     pinned at 990.
This is how Cupt implements downgrade penalty. Maybe also worth documenting
somewhere.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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