On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.4-4 > Severity: normal > > As discussed at length in debian-user it should be possible to use > release identifiers like "oldstable", "stable", .. and their actual > names (sarge, etch, ...) interchangeably throughout all configuration > files for aptitude. > > This is not the case for pinning the Default-Release in > /etc/apt/apt.conf. If i enter something like: > > APT::Default-Release "etch" > > aptitude will not honour this setting, and won't even complain about it. > It is not intuitive to use actual names in /etc/apt/sources.list as a > lot of users are instructed right now and not being able to do so when > setting the default realease.
aptitude touches default-release in a few places, but you probably really care about having this fixed in apt. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
