APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

From: Ross Boylan (RossBoylan_at_stanfordalumni.org)
Date: 11/30/03

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    I have a testing system (with a few items built from unstable
    sources), and just added unstable to my apt sources.list. As
    recommended in the HOWTO, I put
    APT::Default-Release "testing";
    in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/preferences file.

    When I tried apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it wanted to upgrade a
    bunch of packages, all from unstable. I tried commenting out unstable
    from my sources.list, and apt-get upgrade becomes a no-op.

    I expected apt would not use unstable unless I explicitly told it to.
    What am I missing?

    Many of the packages to be upgraded were from mozilla, which is
    something I did build from source. So I could sort of see this
    drawing from unstable, even if I don't understand why. But others are
    definitely not like that, e..g, gnome-pim, install-doc, openuniverse.

    As a side mystery,
    # apt-show-versions -a gnome-pin
    Not installed
    No stable version
    No testing version
    No unstable version
    gnome-pin not installed: No available versions

    But it is installed. 

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