Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.4-1
Severity: minor

Why does aptitude call the apt pre-invoke hook when I tell it to hold a package?
You can see it happening in this transcript, where the hook runs etckeeper.

r...@gnu:/home/joey>aptitude hold initramfs-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 256 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
[master 4a5bf6a] saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.1.4 compiled at Jan 18 2010 07:51:31
Compiler: g++ 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.8.0
  NCurses version 5.7
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.8.0
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb76fe000)
        libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 
(0xb761e000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb75da000)
        liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0xb7433000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb742d000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb736d000)
        libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb72fa000)
        libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb71a9000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7195000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb7113000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 
(0xb7108000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb70ef000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6ffe000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6fd8000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6fba000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6e73000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6e6f000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6e6b000)
        libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0xb6e4b000)
        libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0xb6ce4000)
        libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0xb6cb7000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6ca6000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6c9d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb76ff000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6c99000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb6c66000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6c40000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.1         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libboost-iostreams1.40. 1.40.0-5         Boost.Iostreams Library
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcwidget3             0.5.16-3         high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0                 0.5.30           High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.2-9        GCC support library
ii  liblog4cxx10            0.10.0-1.1       A logging library for C++
ii  libncursesw5            5.7+20090803-2   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a      2.2.4.2-1        type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.6.21-2         SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.2-9          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15             1.0.17-1         Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  apt-xapian-index              <none>     (no description available)
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2    parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  sensible-utils                0.0.2      Utilities for sensible alternative

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  tasksel                       2.81       Tool for selecting tasks for insta

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