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  1. Bug #42178
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 42178

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Jonathon Fernyhough (jfernyhough) wrote : Re: apt-get doesn't use the same pinning as synaptic

Still broken in Lucid.

Workaround is only partial as it ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/ in favour of the plain /etc/apt/preferences:
$ sudo rm /var/lib/synaptic/preferences
$ sudo ln -s /etc/apt/preferences /var/lib/synaptic/preferences

(might need to
$ sudo touch /etc/apt/preferences
if it doesn't already exist)