Bug#776341: apt: bugs/deficiencies in apt_preferences evaluation

2015-01-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I just saw that there is a POSIX ERE matching mode, which can be used to solve the above issue (the glob matching, which I knew of, alone wouldn't have so). So I guess you can close this bug, but I leave it open for now, that you can double check, whether the observed behaviour is actually de

Bug#776341: apt: bugs/deficiencies in apt_preferences evaluation

2015-01-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: apt Version: 1.0.9.6 Severity: normal Hi. I recently noted a "bug" in my own apt_preference configuration... what I do is roughly the following: I have a Debian installed as e.g. stable, but wish to take certain packages from other suites, so I enable these suites in sources.list, e.g.