2016-02-28 1:47 GMT+00:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>: > 2016-02-27 20:46 GMT+00:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: >> That package has a reverse dependency which is also held back, and I can >> see that it has been marked as auto-installed as well, which is not >> surprising (anymore). > > The commit above might be doing the wrong thing, but it doesn't have > much to do with holds but with marking the packages to "keep", for > example when one selects "Keep packages at current version" in the > interactive resolver. > > It doesn't mark them unconditionally as automatic either, it tries to > force the Automatic parameter that was decided elsewhere (presumably, > determined to be the previous state before the current set of > decisions / pending actions was taken).
BTW, I think that I've got a fix for this, but only if you got to this situation by selecting "Keep packages at current version" in the resolver (interactive or not). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
