Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** The command: sudo aptitude hold pacakge reported gnuplot as held and running sudo aptitude upgrade did not try to upgrade gnuplot. Synaptic however reported that gnuplot should be upgraded and dpkg --get-selections package reported that package was "installed", not "hold".
as root, issuing the command echo package hold | dpkg --set-selections amended this problem. That this had to be done as root, not through sudo is possibly why aptitude failed. Sadly this resulted in an unwanted upgrade. aptitude should either fail to execute the hold command or give verbose output as to the extent to which the package is held. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.9 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
