reassign 683099 aptitude 0.6.8-1
retitle 683099 aptitude: Doesn't use 'usual' mechanisms to put packages on hold
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Hi!
This is a problem with Aptitude, since it writes it's own file to
manage package locks and does not use the usual Apt mechanism. If you
want to lock a package, use
$ sudo apt-mark hold <package-name>
instead, and the package will be locked.
It would be really great if Aptitude could use this mechanism too too
support other tools.
Cheers,
Matthias
2012/7/28 Markus Koschany <[email protected]>:
> Package: gnome-packagekit
> Version: 3.4.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> gnome-packagekit ignores my aptitude settings and updates packages
> which i have put on hold.
>
> I would have expected that either the package in question, libcairo2,
> is grayed out, not available for an upgrade or perhaps that
> gnome-packagekit presents some alternative ways to unhold/hold the
> package or to inform the user about possible consequences.
>
> ---How you can reproduce the bug---
>
> 1. Downgrade libcairo2 1.12 to version 1.10 in squeeze-backports.
> 2. aptitude hold libcairo2
> 3. Open gnome-packagekit.
> 4. If you perform an upgrade even packages on hold will be upgraded.
>
> The interesting part is gnome-packagekit installs a newer version of
> libcairo2 but still puts the package on hold. Depending on how
> important the package in question is this could lead to surprising
> effects.
>
> I have found a three year old upstream bug report which describes the
> same issue. [1] Perhaps you should consider to reopen it.
>
> Kind regards
> Markus Koschany
>
> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24795
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
> ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.12.1-2
> ii gnome-packagekit-data 3.4.2-1
> ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-3
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
> ii libc6 2.13-33
> ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2
> ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7~bpo60+1
> ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4
> ii libcanberra0 0.28-4
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1
> ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-6
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-2
> ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1
> ii libpackagekit-glib2-14 0.7.5-2
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
> ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
> ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1
> ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
> ii packagekit 0.7.5-2
>
> gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.
>
> gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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