[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799987: Bug#799987: Bug#799987: aptitude and dpkg disagree upon held packages

[Harald Dunkel]

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On 09/30/15 14:13, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
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> Even if we add support in aptitude to hold uninstalled packages (another bug report of yours), dpkg doesn't consider them, and that's not likely to change in the immediate future

I think that is OK. dpkg is very low level.

> -- so the problem of dpkg and apt and others not knowing about aptitude's hold states of uninstalled packages will repeat, as with the holds on installed packages until now.
> 

I disagree on putting dpkg and apt on the same level here. In my
understanding apt-get and aptitude are. They should work on the
same database of package states. If apt-get is run internally by
the unattended upgrades cron job, then the changes done by aptitude
shouldn't be overridden.


Regards
Harri

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