Huh, so you can, thanks. Confirming that this works too, and agreed that
that looks like it should cover all cases.
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Title:
apt cancels holds on
Sure you can keep versions away with pinning, you pin them to negative
values, e.g.
Package: idontlike
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1
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Title:
a
My understanding of pinning is that that can be used to specify which
version to use, which is what I use it for already, but not to force no
version to be used. Agreed that this is not a common use case, so low
prio and not patching it till it's fixed upstream makes sense, but since
it's something
I didn't remember the discussions with the dpkg maintainer about this,
but I did find them now, and he basically pointed at the same thing.
Anyway, this is not a common use case, so there's no point adding an
extra delta here. Use pinning in apt instead.
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Yes, but that's really something for dpkg upstream to look at, and not
something we should patch out downstream.
** No longer affects: apt (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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You're right btw that it's a dpkg bug, but it's a bit more subtle. The
cleanup that dpkg performs after installation is meant to preserve the
hold state for non-installed packages. This is handled by the
pkg_is_informative function, which classifies everything with "pkg->want
!= PKG_WANT_UNKNOWN" a
Whether it's a bug in apt or in something used by apt doesn't really
make a difference from an end user perspective. Can this bug be reopened
as a dpkg bug, then, or should I report that as a new bug?
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This is not a bug in apt. dpkg cleans up its database and removes hold
states for non-installed packages following an operation.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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