severity 644166 wishlist thanks On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:34:50PM +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.15.8 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/apt-get > > apt-get used to allow specifying tags with "-t" which are not release > names, but are tags found in a release file, as supported by the priority > engine and /etc/apt/preferences. > > For instance, apt-get install t="o=Debian Mozilla Team" lets me choose > packages from the current Iceweasel backports, or -t "o=Wine Sid > Repository" for the upstream wine repository. > > This no longer works in testing. The message emitted is > E: The value 'o=Wine Sid Repository' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as > such a release is not available > in the sources > > I guess therefore that this loss of functionality is a side-effect of the > fix for #407511 which limits -t to actual Debian release names. It was > very useful to be able to effectively override any pin in this manner. > > If the functionality can't be restored to -t, please can some other option > be added to allow the policy overrides mentioned in apt-get's man page ?
I don't see that as a regression, more as a feature request. As far as I can tell, nobody ever specified that this would work, and it only worked because there were no checks. With the time, more checks get added, so more problems get detected. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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