[Aptitude-devel] Bug#899370: Holding uninstalled packages gives false success

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.10-9

Here it says it is marking the (uninstalled) package as hold, but we
observe it doesn't actually.

# set openjdk-11-jre-headless
# aptitude search $@
p   openjdk-11-jre-headless                                            - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
# aptitude hold $@
Marking package openjdk-11-jre-headless (hold)
# aptitude search $@
p   openjdk-11-jre-headless                                            - OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (headless)
# aptitude forbid-version $@
Package openjdk-11-jre-headless is not installed, cannot forbid an upgrade

At least forbid-version is more truthful.