Mixed testing/unstable system, and dist-upgrade

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk_at_matchmail.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Hi,

    I have kde, and gnome installed from unstable, and as packages get upgraded,
    and dependancies change, or new versions are available in unstable, I more
    often than not, have apt-get trying to remove 50-100 packages instead of
    getting the needed packages from unstable.

    If I read the apt_preferences manual correctly, once a package has been
    installed from unstable, and it hasn't been put into my highest priority
    entry (testing), then future upgrades should be from unstable for that
    package.

    Did I do something wrong, or is this a bug?

    # apt-get -ut unstable install kdelibs-data
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 libarts1
    The following packages will be upgraded
      kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 libarts1
    4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
    Need to get 12.6MB of archives.
    After unpacking 643kB disk space will be freed.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

    Compare this to:
    Reading Package Lists...
    Building Dependency Tree...
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      amor ark artsbuilder atlantik cdbakeoven eyesapplet fifteenapplet flashkard
      kaboodle kaddressbook kalarm kalzium kamera kandy kaphorism kappfinder karbon
      karm kasteroids kate katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbattleship kbear
      kblackbox kbounce kcalc kcharselect kchart kcmlinuz kcoloredit kcontrol
      kcpuload kcron kdat kde kde-amusements kde-core kdeaddons
      kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork
      kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu kdegames
      kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4
      kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
      kdenetwork kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins
      kdepim-libs kdeprint kdesktop kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdf kdict kdm kdvi
      kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfind kfloppy kformula kfouleggs kgeo kget
      kghostview kgpgcertmanager khangman khelpcenter khexedit kicker
      kicker-applets kiconedit kile kit kiten kivio kjots kjumpingcube
      klaptopdaemon klettres klickety klines klipper kmahjongg kmail kmailcvt
      kmenuedit kmerlin kmessedwords kmid kmidi kmines kmix kmoon kmplot kmrml
      knapster2 knetfilter knetload knewsticker knode knotes kodo koffice
      koffice-data koffice-libs kolf konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins
      konquest konsole kontour kooka korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpager kpaint
      kpat kpercentage kpersonalizer kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler kppp kpresenter
      krdc krec krecord kreversi krfb krita kruler krusader ksame kscd kscreensaver
      kshisen ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver ksnake ksnapshot ksokoban
      kspaceduel ksplash kspread kstars ksync ksysguard ksysv ktalkd kteatime
      ktexmaker2 ktimer ktip ktouch ktron ktuberling ktux kugar kuickshow kuser
      kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kweather kwin kwin4 kword kworldclock
      kxconfig kxmlrpc libarts1-mpeglib libkdeedu1 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2
      libkonq4 libkregexpeditor libkscan1 lskat megami mpeglib noatun
      noatun-plugins qtella-kde quanta secpolicy
    The following packages will be upgraded
      kdelibs-data
    1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 213 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/5060kB of archives.
    After unpacking 278MB disk space will be freed.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

    here is my apt preferences file:
    package: *
    pin: release a=unstable
    Pin-Priority: 711

    package: *
    pin: release o=Debian
    Pin-Priority: 722

    sources.list:
    #Stable
    #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
    #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

    #Testing
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

    #Unstable
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

    #Security
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
    deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

    #Proposed Updates
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-proposed-updates main non-free contrib
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main non-free contrib

    #Open Office
    #deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
    #deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib
    #deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ unstable main contrib

    #Coda
    #deb http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux debian/binary-$(ARCH)/

    #Samba Stable
    #deb http://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba stable main 

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