Hi,

I have kde, and gnome installed from unstable, and as packages get upgraded,
and dependancies change, or new versions are available in unstable, I more
often than not, have apt-get trying to remove 50-100 packages instead of
getting the needed packages from unstable.

If I read the apt_preferences manual correctly, once a package has been
installed from unstable, and it hasn't been put into my highest priority
entry (testing), then future upgrades should be from unstable for that
package.

Did I do something wrong, or is this a bug?

# apt-get -ut unstable install kdelibs-data
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 libarts1
The following packages will be upgraded
kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 libarts1
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 643kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Compare this to:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
amor ark artsbuilder atlantik cdbakeoven eyesapplet fifteenapplet flashkard
kaboodle kaddressbook kalarm kalzium kamera kandy kaphorism kappfinder karbon
karm kasteroids kate katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbattleship kbear
kblackbox kbounce kcalc kcharselect kchart kcmlinuz kcoloredit kcontrol
kcpuload kcron kdat kde kde-amusements kde-core kdeaddons
kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork
kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu kdegames
kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4
kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
kdenetwork kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins
kdepim-libs kdeprint kdesktop kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdf kdict kdm kdvi
kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfind kfloppy kformula kfouleggs kgeo kget
kghostview kgpgcertmanager khangman khelpcenter khexedit kicker
kicker-applets kiconedit kile kit kiten kivio kjots kjumpingcube
klaptopdaemon klettres klickety klines klipper kmahjongg kmail kmailcvt
kmenuedit kmerlin kmessedwords kmid kmidi kmines kmix kmoon kmplot kmrml
knapster2 knetfilter knetload knewsticker knode knotes kodo koffice
koffice-data koffice-libs kolf konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins
konquest konsole kontour kooka korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpager kpaint
kpat kpercentage kpersonalizer kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler kppp kpresenter
krdc krec krecord kreversi krfb krita kruler krusader ksame kscd kscreensaver
kshisen ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver ksnake ksnapshot ksokoban
kspaceduel ksplash kspread kstars ksync ksysguard ksysv ktalkd kteatime
ktexmaker2 ktimer ktip ktouch ktron ktuberling ktux kugar kuickshow kuser
kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kweather kwin kwin4 kword kworldclock
kxconfig kxmlrpc libarts1-mpeglib libkdeedu1 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2
libkonq4 libkregexpeditor libkscan1 lskat megami mpeglib noatun
noatun-plugins qtella-kde quanta secpolicy
The following packages will be upgraded
kdelibs-data
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 213 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/5060kB of archives.
After unpacking 278MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

here is my apt preferences file:
package: *
pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 711

package: *
pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: 722

sources.list:
#Stable
#deb [url]http://http.us.debian.org/debian/[/url] stable main non-free contrib
#deb [url]http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US[/url] stable/non-US main contrib non-free

#Testing
deb [url]http://http.us.debian.org/debian/[/url] testing main non-free contrib
deb [url]http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US[/url] testing/non-US main contrib non-free

#Unstable
deb [url]http://http.us.debian.org/debian/[/url] unstable main non-free contrib
deb [url]http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US[/url] unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

#Security
deb [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] testing/updates main contrib non-free

#Proposed Updates
deb [url]http://http.us.debian.org/debian/[/url] stable-proposed-updates main non-free contrib
deb [url]http://http.us.debian.org/debian/[/url] testing-proposed-updates main non-free contrib

#Open Office
#deb [url]ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice[/url] unstable main contrib
#deb [url]http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/[/url] testing main contrib
#deb [url]http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/[/url] unstable main contrib

#Coda
#deb [url]http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux[/url] debian/binary-$(ARCH)/

#Samba Stable
#deb [url]http://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba[/url] stable main



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