Bug#617445: source order documentation vs. apt-cache policy

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:20:59AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> What exactly is your complaint here?

All I am hoping for is that much of you wrote in your reply will get
documented, right there on the man page for apt-cache policy, etc.
Today I don't have Debian here at the public library so this is from memory.

> [ ] Version/Pining is more important than the order in sources.list
> [ ] apt-cache policy lists sources in reverse order of sources.list
> 
> 
> The order of sources.list is important only when package+version that
> policy decided to use is available from more than one source. Only then
> the source listed first is used. So in the example above packages would
> be preferably downloaded from ftp.debian.org if and only if both
> ftp.debian.org and security.debian.org have the package.

OK, just be sure it mentions that on the apt-cache policy man page section...

> > Also it is a mystery about how plain "apt-cache policy" sorts its
> > output!
> > 
> Seems to be just reverse order of what your sources.list has.

OK, hope that will be documented.