Hi Daniel(*), Debian Bug Tracking System wrote on 15th of September 2012: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > tags 137771 + help > Bug #137771 [aptitude] aptitude: holds should take effect in > /var/lib/dpkg/status as well > Bug #146207 [aptitude] aptitude: in command-line mode ignores hold set by > dpkg --set-selections > Bug #161810 [aptitude] aptitude: Aptitude does not set hold state > Bug #174091 [aptitude] apt-get ignores hold set with aptitude > Bug #199887 [aptitude] Subject: packages held by dselect are not detected in > aptitude > Bug #220794 [aptitude] aptitude: can not set package to hold > Bug #277719 [aptitude] hold in aptitude and in dpkg are not the same > Bug #328616 [aptitude] Add "revision" information to the dpkg database? > Bug #453702 [aptitude] sudo aptitude hold packageName does not modify > selections > Added tag(s) help.
This is a quite old bug and not only according to the amount of duplicates an annoying one. ;-) It's likely less trivial than it seems, otherwise it would have been fixed already a long time ago. I'm though curious what's the culprit which -- for more than a decade -- kept developers from fixing it. I browsed through the merged bugs, but the only hint I found so far about the issue described in http://bugs.debian.org/137771 is in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220794#20: "the databases do not contain exactly equivalent information, and there is no one-to-one translation between them" (But it's not mentioned what the differences actually are.) So I would be happy if you could post some more details to #137771 about where you could need or would like to have help. Do you think it's rather a technical or a conceptual issue? TIA! (*) JFTR: Daniel Hartwig, not Daniel Burrows. :-) P.S.: http://bugs.debian.org/328616 looks to me like a different issue than http://bugs.debian.org/137771 -- maybe related, but not specifically related to syncing hold states. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
