Package: apt
Version: 1.0.10.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
The EDSP spec says that the Install field containing the installation
request does not contain version numbers. Instead, packages can contain
the APT-Candidate field set to Yes to denote that this version should be
selected for installation.
Nevertheless, when I do:
apt-get --simulate install --solver dump -o
APT::Solver::Strict-Pinning=false ghc=7.10.2-2
or
apt-get --simulate install --solver dump -o
APT::Solver::Strict-Pinning=false ghc/experimental
then the resulting /tmp/dump.edsp does not contain any such field and
thus the solver is not told which version of ghc to install.
This is even though the second command tells me:
Selected version '7.10.2-2' (Debian:experimental [amd64]) for 'ghc'
Please make it so that specifying ghc=7.10.2-2 or ghc/experimental on
the apt command line both mark the right package stanza in the EDSP
output with APT-Candidate:Yes.
I found this bug through bug #795827 but did not manage to find a
followup bug that described this problem. CC-ing Ralf as the submitter
of that bug and as the maintainer of apt-cudf in Debian.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
