> > If the user don't want to see it (s)he can e.g. put the not installed > > package on hold and will be done with it? > > This does not seem to work in all cases. I've recently struggled with a > system that was trying to remove or upgrade packages that I had > explicitly set on hold immediately before. But I made no recordings, > so...
Here's a specific example, the two packages in question in the apticron bugs: 1) dash - I didn't have it installed to begin with, but I was able to install the stable version and put it on hold and that prevented dist-upgrade from wanting to upgrade it. 2) diffutils - This didn't exist as a binary package in stable, so there is nothing to install and put on hold. On #debian-backports we discussed the idea of backporting the testing version with "Essential: yes" removed (and converted to the old source format so it will work with backports). I might do that soon. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
