Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Severity: minor After using dpkg --purge, dpkg -i to manually downgrade a package, aptitude show <package-name> | grep Version still shows the original version as installed. This behaviour continues even after an interactive available package-list update, and setting the package on hold.
Indeed, even using to aptitude to purge the package, and then using dpkg -i to install the old version doesn't reset the version aptitude thinks is installed. I'm too lazy to create a repository so that aptitude can install the old version. Fooling round with this and Forbidden, I now have $ aptitude show nvidia-settings Package: nvidia-settings State: installed [held] Forbidden version: 1.0+20060516-1 Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0+20060516-1 In interactive mode aptitude shows the correct version as installed (Version: 1.0+20051122-1). Thanks for your work on Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.44.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1.1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
