Comment 4 for bug 508545

Still affects aptitude 0.4.11.11 on Ubuntu 10.04 as of 24 Mar 2010.

It just merrily munched my custom-rebuilt netatalk package, knocking all the Mac OS 9 systems required for critical legacy apps off the network. Ouch!

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/netatalk
Package: netatalk
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: 1001

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  netatalk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  netatalk
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  libpam-cracklib rc
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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