On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:45:23AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> On 2017-07-22 00:23, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> > Boruch Baum wrote on 21/07/17 23:50:
> > > 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.
>
> Thanks, Ralph!
>
> That's good news and solved the immediate mystery, but isn't yet an
> entire solution.
>
> The good news is that, indeed, that was the only line in my
> /etc/apt/apt.conf file, and upon being commented out, running apt-cache
> policy on a package such as reportbug did report all 990 pinnings gone.
>

-_- ....

I am very glad you solved your problem, in the end. For the future,
please try to be more considerate before rushing to report the
"incompetent" behaviour of something of somebody else :)

Here at Devuan we naturally tend to love unconditionally all those who
are in good faith, irrespective or their own "moments" (and we all
have ours). But you might get much nastier replies and worse reactions
elsewhere ;)

WithLove

KatolaZ


P.S.: Concerning the onethousand-twohundred-and-counting packages to
upgrade, it looks like your system has remained stuck somewhere close
to late 2015 or early 2016, so it's normal to have that many packages
to be upgraded in 18 months, especially if you enable -backports,
-updates, and -security.

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