On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:40:40PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> First and main of them is Cupt's resolver always consider all versions,
> which is considered a feature. I can add a feature to stop considering
> version with some priority less than X for installing, but -40 is still
> too "big" for Cupt's resolver to satisfy the 'forget this version' rule
> (i.e. third reason).

Well, I currently don't have any libclutter-1.0-0 versions installed,
which is why the pin is for any version.  Also, I tried changing the
Pin-Priority to -2000 and that didn't change the outcome any.

> Conclusion:
> 
> Your use case shows to me one more time that the current half-support
> situation is a mess and Cupt cannot use APT pinning system reliably.
> This is probably a time to drop APT pinning system support altogether
> and roll something that Cupt users can rely on.

Hmm, I would find that unfortunate in this instance since apt-listbugs
is a very useful tool.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>

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