Hi,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:00:14PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote:
...
> Long story short, why is it not possible to pin by release name? Searching 
> for 
> this returns lots of web pages that show examples with pinning by release 
> name, and I'm wondering why they all propose something that doesn't work at 
> all...

Because that is how APT system is written and how Debian archive is
organized.

 > I hope somebody can enlighten me on this topic a bit.

It is a bit more than just release name ... Please read my new Debian
Reference section:

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#tweakingcandidateversion

Osamu


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