Yup, it's a bug. It was fixed in Debian last October and only made it into aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 in Natty, so both Lucid and Maverick suffer from this problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580 I filed a backport request: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid- backports/+bug/795602 But it would be nice if it could be fixed here. The workaround is to stop using aptitude and use (ick) apt-get instead. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #557580 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672513 Title: aptitude package pinning not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/672513/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
