Bug#638856: [pbuilder] fails to create with option --distribution experimental

[Junichi Uekawa]

At Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:27:21 +0200,
Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> 
> This might be caused by
> 
>   APT::Default-Release "experimental";
> 
> in apt.conf which pbuilder seems to add for a experimental chroot.
> Doing this is wrong as it will cause all dependencies to be taken from
> experimental, including those having a high enough version in unstable.
> 
> In particular I heard that pbuilder currently tries to install perl 5.16
> from experimental (perl 5.16 is not really installable).

What's the value of keeping something that's not installable in experimental?

> 
> Ansgar
> 
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