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, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39 Compiler: g++ 4.9.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.4.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd09d5e000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f32e601c000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f32e5de6000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f32e5bbb000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f32e59b5000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f32e569f000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f32e53d5000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f32e51bd000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f32e4da6000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f32e4b88000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f32e487d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f32e457c000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f32e4365000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f32e3fba000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f32e3db7000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f32e3bb2000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f32e3997000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f32e3787000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f32e3563000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f32e335b000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f32e3155000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055f40ed9e000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.11-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.3 ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-2 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.4.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libxapian22 1.2.22-3~bpo8+1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.11-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47 ii debtags 1.12.3 ii tasksel 3.31+deb8u1 -- no debconf information