Hi, I've a little question about apt-pinning.
I'm running debian testing and when running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' apt tells me that it wants to remove packet 'xmaxima'. This is quite logical, since currently xmaxima is out of the testing. To prevent this I wrote in /etc/apt/preferences file: Package: xmaxima Pin: version * Pin-Priority: 1200 Still when running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' apt tells me that it wants to remove xmaxima. Then I thought: maybe it's because apt can't find xmaxima-packet at all. And after some consideration I wrote a new apt_preferences file and made necessary changes to sources.list. /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 100 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1 Package: xmaxima Pin: version * Pin-Priority: 1200 Still when running 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' I get that apt wants to remove xmaxima though it's surely present in both stable and unstable distribution. Question: Am I doing something wrong? APT HOWTO section 3.10 states that if packet has a priority >1000 it should _never_ be replaced by apt. Is there any way to force apt not to remove packet when doing dist-upgrade? P.S. Of course it's possible to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install xmaxima/unstable', but wasn't the whole idea behind apt-pinning to avoid this kind of mess?
