Bug#544481: apticron: apt-get dist-upgrade pulling required packages from unstable
Like the reporters of #531002 and #557209 I was seeing apticron continually
reporting that the dash and diffutils packages needed to be upgraded. I
figured out what is going on:
1) The systems seeing this also have unstable listed in sources.list but
have it pinned to a low priority.
2) diffutils and dash are "Priority: required"/"Essential: yes" in
unstable, but weren't in lenny.
3) apt-get dist-upgrade thinks they should be pulled in (aptitude
dist-upgrade ignores them)
This appears to be the same as #544481.
For apticron: can this be worked around or maybe just document ways the
user can prevent it from happening?
For apt-get:
I suppose this could be seen as either a bug or feature, if the latter then
please leave open and tag wontfix (and make aptitude consistent).
Regardless of the default, it might be nice to have a command-line switch
that controls the behavior so that things like apticron could specify what
they want.
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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