[Aptitude-devel] Bug#825866: using "=" to hold a package is not interoperable with apt-get

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed
Control: found -1 0.8.1-1


Hi,

2016-05-30 23:59 Jeffrey Sheinberg:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>If I set a package status to hold using dpkg-hold, then the hold is
>honored by aptitude, apt-get, and dselect.
>
>If I set a package status to hold using aptitude's "=" cpmmand, then the
>hold is honored by aptitude, but the hold is not honored by either
>apt-get or by dselect.

Thanks for the report.  This seems to happen also with recent versions
of aptitude.


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