> I have a few packages on hold, and unfortunately apticron emails me > about them as pending upgrade everytime it is run. It would be really > nice if I did not get these emails, so I would humbly request that an > option be added so that those who wish to see these would still see > them (default), and those of us who do not can set this option.
This is not a bug in apticron, it is a known bug in aptitude. Aptitude ignores apt/dselect/dpkg holds and vice versa (see #137771). Sadly aptitude's upstream is not much interested in fixing this more than five years old bug. The fact, that you, as a DD, are not aware of this broken behaviour, especially since it is a tool that you use every day and file random bugs against other packages is IMO a good sign, that this bug is worth being fixed. > An alternative, to reduce the noise, would be to implement the patch in > #344115, as I dont need to know every time apticron runs that the same > packages that are on hold are still on hold. Please don't, or at least make this feature configurable and not default. E-Mails may get lost or deleted for various reasons and packages upgrades are too important to be skipped because of one lost mail. Regards, Carsten P.S.: I'm not merging and reassigning this bug against aptitude since it has been filed various times and to prevent further mistaken bug-reports against apticron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
