On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:48:49 +0300
Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:

> Starting from this version pinning
> (i.e. preventing from being installed)
> packages this way:
> -------------------------------------------
> Package: foo
> Pin: release *
> Pin-Priority: -1
> -------------------------------------------
> doesn't work anymore.


Here's a link to the apt_preferences(5) from an apt v1.1.3 .deb:

http://zwischenspeicher.info/temp/apt_preferences.5--v1.1.3.gz

open with
# man /path/to/file.gz

Seems there's no need to panic at all :-)

Florian