Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.10-1+b2
In certain situation, aptitude seems to lose or ignore the 'hold' state
of packages. This was working fine before, but doesn't work anymore, so
it might be due to changes in the conflict resolver.
I put tidy and libtidy on hold by calling
$ aptitude hold tidy libtidy-0.99-0
then later I did
$ aptitude safe-upgrade
[...]
[... held back ...]
libsane{a} libtidy-0.99-0{a} tidy
[... 27 packages being upgraded ...]
and immediately after:
$ aptitude safe-upgrade
[...]
[... held back ...]
libsane{a}
[... upgrading ...]
libtidy-0.99-0 tidy
I've already downgraded tidy more than four times, because aptitude
keeps on losing the 'hold' state. (The new tidy breaks
python-elementtidy).
I have the impression this is because this is the 'best' upgrade
aptitude finds. While there were still other packages to upgrade, the
'best' solution was keeping tidy at the held version and upgrading the
other packages. Now it has the options of not doing anything or
upgrading tidy, and decides to upgrade tidy. Maybe it also needs to have
an unsatisfiable upgrade such as libsane for this to occur.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-====================
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 |
libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-8
libcwidget1 | 0.5.6.1-3
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21) | 1:4.3-20080202-1
libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) | 5.6+20080203-1
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) | 2.0.17-2
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4) | 4.3-20080202-1
best regards,
Erich Schubert
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