mirror protocol breaks pinning

[Rolf Leggewie]

I switched all Ubuntu related feeds from the standard http protocol to the mirror protocol

deb mirror://oss.leggewie.org/ubuntu-mirrors.php trusty-proposed main

That broke my pinning, especially to prevent automatic installations from -proposed and -backports.

+--[ /etc/apt/preferences ]
|
| ## PIN by release ##
| Package: *
| Pin: release a=*-proposed
| Pin-Priority: 98
|
| Package: *
| Pin: release a=*-backports
| Pin-Priority: 97
|
+--

This would no longer pin down -proposed and -backports.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

possibly related:
https://bugs.debian.org/701564

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could you provide some more information about when this used to work?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This worked until I switched to the mirror protocol and it works again now that I dropped those entries.

$ apt-cache policy libwhoopsie0
libwhoopsie0:
  Installed: 0.2.24.6
  Candidate: 0.2.24.6
  Version table:
     0.2.24.6ubuntu1 0
         98 http://u.cname.leggewie.org/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages
 *** 0.2.24.6 0
        500 http://u.cname.leggewie.org/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.2.24.5 0
        500 http://u.cname.leggewie.org/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages