Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.1-2 Severity: wishlist * What led up to the situation? I just tried to hold a specific package (gdebi) in aptitude and it really is not held while using apt-get upgrade. If hold in aptitude, apt-get ignores it, dpkg too. If hold by dpkg, apt-get accept it, but aptitude doesnt. it is a real pain though trying to keep old versions of something. as a note: gdebi 0.8.5 working, but not with 0.8.6, i've send a bug report
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? only using one method to update/upgrade , in my case, i'm using aptitude * What outcome did you expect instead? It will be really nice if one can simply hold a package on apt and all the package manager respect it.. "One hold to rule them all, One hold to find them, One hold to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.1 compiled at Sep 25 2012 14:08:38 Compiler: g++ 4.7.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff64f7a000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fd00c75d000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fd00c52d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fd00c303000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fd00c0fe000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fd00bdfe000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007fd00bb5d000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fd00b778000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fd00b561000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fd00b2b5000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fd00b09c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd00ae80000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fd00ab78000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fd00a8f6000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fd00a6e0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd00a358000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fd00a155000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd009f51000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fd009d40000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fd009b3b000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fd009932000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd00d0fb000) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-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 Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.1-2 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.5 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-7 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-7 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.1-2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.13 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org