[Aptitude-devel] Bug#815551: aptitude: safe-upgrade removes manually installed package if dependency is on hold

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-02-28 1:47 GMT+00:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
> 2016-02-27 20:46 GMT+00:00 Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de>:
>> That package has a reverse dependency which is also held back, and I can
>> see that it has been marked as auto-installed as well, which is not
>> surprising (anymore).
>
> The commit above might be doing the wrong thing, but it doesn't have
> much to do with holds but with marking the packages to "keep", for
> example when one selects "Keep packages at current version" in the
> interactive resolver.
>
> It doesn't mark them unconditionally as automatic either, it tries to
> force the Automatic parameter that was decided elsewhere (presumably,
> determined to be the previous state before the current set of
> decisions / pending actions was taken).

BTW, I think that I've got a fix for this, but only if you got to this
situation by selecting "Keep packages at current version" in the
resolver (interactive or not).


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