Public bug reported:

We're running a mixed system. We're running Gutsy until Hardy is
officially released, but we need PHP > 5.2.3, so our sources.list
contains:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
[...]
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse

- and our /etc/apt/preferences contains:

Package: *
Pin: release a=hardy
Pin-Priority: 100

aptitude respects the pin priority and only offers to upgrade 41
packages:

juno% sudo aptitude -DR dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for jablko:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.24-14-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-14-generic
  linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-14-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bzip2 cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common firefox
  firefox-gnome-support landscape-client language-pack-en
  language-pack-gnome-en libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-i686 libcupsimage2
  libcupsys2 libhal1 libicu36 libkrb53 libruby1.8 libssl0.9.8
linux-generic
  linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic linux-image-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-12-generic
  linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic
  openssh-client openssh-server skype skype-common ssh ssh-askpass-gnome
  tzdata ubuntu-docs unzip xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nv
  xserver-xorg-video-vesa
41 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 134MB of archives. After unpacking 194MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

However smart wants to upgrade > 900:

juno% smart upgrade
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Upgrading packages (906):
  acpi-support                           libgtkspell0
  adduser                                libgtop2-7
  alacarte                               libgtop2-common
[...]

Thanks and best wishes, Jack

** Affects: smart (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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not respecting apt pinning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212643
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