I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday
and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried
will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that
version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read
through the aptitude man page and this looked like the proper way to
do it:
aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1
When I run "aptitude show libfreetype6" it says that version is
forbidden:
Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1
but dist-upgrade still wants to install it.
I don't do aptitude on the command line, but can't you just put the package on hold ('=' if you're using the 'gui')?
Patrick
