[Bug 428545] Re: aptitude Silently ignores invalid Default-Release.

[Daniel Hartwig]

This appears fixed in recent versions on my Debian system:

# ./aptitude install tf
E: The value 'etch' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources

Does this still affect you?


** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  aptitude Silently ignores invalid Default-Release.

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: aptitude

  # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
  APT::Default-Release "jaunty";

  Is ignored, with no errors (that I noticed).  Aptitude happily goes
  about attempting to upgrade my entire system to karmic.

  The apt.conf man page says "Release codenames (´etch´, ´lenny´ etc.)
  are not allowed now."  This displeases me greatly, but it should die
  with an error saying that the Default-Release value is not valid, not
  ignore it.

  This appears to work:
  # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
  APT::Default-Release "9.04";

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
  Release:	9.04

  # apt-cache policy aptitude
  aptitude:
    Installed: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu1

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