Linux Mint

mint-update does not respect apt pinning

Bug #734609 reported by Scott Sweeny
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Bug Description

I recently installed Linux Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. There are a few packages I wanted that were available in Debian Unstable but not in Testing (and therefore not in LMDE). I added the Unstable repository to my sources.list and set up apt to prefer the "testing" version. All was well and good as apt and synaptic behave as you would expect, but mint-update now tries to upgrade all of my packages to the Unstable versions.

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knut (mr-knut) wrote :

maybe related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1556604

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Grey Seeker (greyseek3r) wrote :

This is indeed a syntax error in the /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.perf file, where o=Ubuntu is mistakenly written instead of o=Debian.
Since LMDE is based on Debian, Mint packages should take priority over Debian packages, not Ubuntu.

I suppose adding a fix to one of LMDE specific packages can easily fix this issue.

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