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  1. Bug #42178
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 42178

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B Bobo (yout-bobo123) wrote : Re: apt-get doesn't use the same pinning as synaptic

According to the first comment (bug #42178#bug-branches-container) I see synaptic was changed to use /var/lib/synaptic/preferences instead of the global preferences file /etc/apt/preferences to make it less confusing.

However, I think synaptic is actually much more confusing because of that change! It confsued me, and I wasted time trying to deal with it and filing bug #1166568. I agree with what Daniel Hartwig wrote in comment #27. I too would like to see the 2004 change reverted, so that synaptic uses the global preferences file in future. It seems better and more logical to do it that way.