I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how package priorities work, but apparently I don't. Why is it pulling the packages from unstable instead of stable?
$ apt-get source -b fakeroot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 981kB of source archives. Get:1 http://ftp3.nrc.ca unstable/main fakeroot 1.5.6 (dsc) [707B] Get:2 http://ftp3.nrc.ca unstable/main fakeroot 1.5.6 (tar) [980kB] <snip> ----- /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 ----- /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT { Default-Release "stable"; Cache-Limit 12582912; // Options for apt-get Get { Purge; Download-Only "false"; }; }; // Options for the downloading routines Acquire { Retries "0"; }; // Things that effect the APT dselect method DSelect { Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never }; DPkg { // Probably don't want to use force-downgrade.. Options {"--force-overwrite";} } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]