[Aptitude-devel] Bug#729761: Does not respect holds

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2013-11-21 00:05 Matthias Klumpp:
>forcemerge 137771 729761
>thanks
>
>Hi!
>This is a bug which has been known for a long time, and is the #1
>reason why I recommend using apt-get over aptitude ;-)
>Hopefully this will be fixed soon, but after so much time has passed,
>I doubt that. (I am also not sure what the problem is currently)
>Cheers,
>    Matthias
>
>
>2013/11/21 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>:
>> reassign 729761 aptitude
>> retitle 729761 aptitude: Does not set holds in apt
>> thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:14:55AM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>>> 2013/11/17 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>:
>>> > Package: gnome-packagekit
>>> > Version: 3.8.2-4
>>> > Severity: normal
>>> >
>>> > I have several packages on hold.  Despite that, gnome-packagekit
>>> > repeatedly pops up a notification about software updates, asking me to
>>> > update those packages.
>>> >
>>> > I don't know if this bug lies in gnome-packagekit or in packagekit
>>> > itself.
>>> PackageKit/Aptcc does respect holds in Apt. You should use apt-mark to
>>> properly set a package on hold, like "apt-mark hold <pkgname>".
>>> If that works, everything is fine :-)
>>> Aptcc does not parse the custom files set by Aptitude, it only
>>> respects Apt settings in that regard.
>>
>> Interesting.  Sounds like a bug in aptitude for not using apt's holds.
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> - Josh Triplett

I wanted to give you a heads-up about this bug report, because since
it's so long after the it was submitted and if you see a bug-closed
message for the merged bug #137771, maybe you don't notice it.

So the news is that I commited a change that I believe that it will fix
the issue.  If you are still interested in the outcome of this bug
report and to see if it was really fixed, it would be great if you could
check if the problems that you were observing are gone once it's
released.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>