Bug#407511: apt: Wrong value for APT::Default-Release may cause unwanted upgrades

["Tzvetan Mikov" <tmikov@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I have been having trouble with this one for a long time too and was
just planning to report it. There are several bug reports already, but
they haven't really been addressed. For example:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313041
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=141495

I understand that the maintainters position is that this is not going
to be changed/fixed.

The workaround for this problem, which as far as I can tell is not
documented clearly anywhere, is to use a release version instead of a
codename. In /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT::Default-Release "4.0*";

I think that at least this should be refiled as bug against the
documentation and documented clearly and _loudly_. A quick Google
shows many many hits containing things like APT::Default-Release
"sarge"; so the confusion is global.

regards,
Tzvetan