[Aptitude-devel] Bug#787658: aptitude ignores available updates for a while after downgrades

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Both bugs #787658 and #714429 are manifestations of the same underlying
> problem, and after thinking about this and diving into the code, I
> decided that it is actually a bug and not a feature.

I agree. If someone wants to downgrade and then keep it downgraded
permanently, it should be marked as "hold" manually when showing up as
"upgradable" the next run, otherwise it should be upgraded again.

> But after investigating it and thinking about it, I thought that using
> downgrade+holds is probably good enough aproximation if people ask about
> this (and hopefully now they work better and across apt as well).

*nod*

> So in the end, marking as +pending, to be included in the next release.

Thanks!

		Regards, Axel
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