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diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 54c01100c..219da7cd1 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ You have been warned.
directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
following naming convention: The files have no or "pref"
as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-),
-underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they will be silently
-ignored.
+underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
+Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
+doesn't match a pattern in the Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently
+configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.
APT's Default Priority Assignments
@@ -103,12 +105,16 @@ algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package. Assign:
priority 1
to the versions coming from archives which in their Release
-files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" like the debian experimental archive.
+files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" but not as "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes"
+like the debian experimental archive.
priority 100
-to the version that is already installed (if any).
+to the version that is already installed (if any) and to the versions coming
+from archives which in their Release files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" and
+"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" like the debian backports archive since squeeze-backports.
+
@@ -125,9 +131,10 @@ files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" like the debian experimental archive.If the target release has not been specified then APT simply assigns
priority 100 to all installed package versions and priority 500 to all
-uninstalled package versions, expect versions coming from archives which
+uninstalled package versions, except versions coming from archives which
in their Release files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" -
-these versions get the priority 1.
+these versions get the priority 1 or priority 100 if it is additionally marked
+as "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes".
APT then applies the following rules, listed in order of precedence,
to determine which version of a package to install.