Arrgh I should have RTFM suddenly its all clear, the numbers used when pinning are not just sequential ie just giving stabel testing and unstable numbers in the order higher -> lower will not work. They are in bands or ranges and different ranges meean different things, for eample one range means never install unless package is unavailable anywhere else !
So for the search engines in case anyone else has the same issue. If you wnat to be able to selectively choose packages from testing and unstable but pin your distribution to stable by default then your preferences should look something like this but I do suggest you RTFM as there is a lot you can tweak here: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 970 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 950 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 900 Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
