apt_preferences man page typo

Bug #150900 reported by Fernando Miguel
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

The following record assigns a low priority to all package versions belonging to any
distribution
          whose Archive name is "unstable".

              Package: *
              Pin: release a=unstable
              Pin-Priority: 500
          The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions belonging to any release
whose
          Archive name is "stable" and whose release Version number is "3.0".

              Package: *
              Pin: release a=stable, v=3.0
              Pin-Priority: 500
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

when it should be:
              Package: *
              Pin: release a=unstable
              Pin-Priority: 50
          The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions belonging to any release
whose
          Archive name is "stable" and whose release Version number is "3.0".

              Package: *
              Pin: release a=stable, v=3.0
              Pin-Priority: 500

Tags: bitesize

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David Futcher (bobbo) wrote :

Can you tell us the exact name of the man page you found this error in? Thanks.

Changed in apt:
status: New → Incomplete
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Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote :

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 17:29:55 David Futcher wrote:
> Can you tell us the exact name of the man page you found this error in?

 Status: New

$ man apt_preferences
bugabundo@rhino:~$ whereis apt_preferences
apt_preferences: /usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz

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Changed in apt:
status: Incomplete → New
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in apt:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.7.9ubuntu13

---------------
apt (0.7.9ubuntu13) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Lionel Porcheron ]
  * debian/apt.cron.daily:
    - only call gconftool if gcontool is installed (LP: #194281)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * doc/apt_preferences.5.xml:
    - fix typo (LP: #150900)
  * doc/example/sources.list:
    - updated for hardy (LP: #195879)
  * debian/apt.cron.daily:
    - sleep random amount of time (default within 0-30min) before
      starting the upate to hit the mirrors less hard

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:35:09 +0100

Changed in apt:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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