Boruch Baum wrote on 21/07/17 23:50:
> On 2017-07-21 14:14, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 08:39:50AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
>>
>> Just to clarify, and since you are talking about "default" pin levels:
>> the default pin level of standard Devuan repositories is 500. The
>> default for backports and experimental is 100. So I can't explain
>> where does your "default" 990 come from, except for an obvious
>> mangling with pins on your side.
>>
>> Devuan is far from being perfect, and has several glitches, but please
>> let's try to be honest and do not attribute our own glitches to Devuan
>> as well: it would just be totally unfair :)
>
> I've just now looked AGAIN manually and using grep, and haven't found
> anywhere in /etc/apt or its sub-directories any explicit pin for
> anything 990.
>
> Where else should I be looking?
>

Perhaps you've set "APT::Default-Release "jessie";" ?

Without that, you'll get the more balanced pinning of 500 and 100.
I think I saw some Debian bug report (on apt?) for this.

Ralph.