>> # aptitude hold storebackup
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Reading extended state information
>> Initializing package states... Done
>> Reading task descriptions... Done
>> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>> Writing extended state information... Done
>> 
>> No message tells anything about holding.  And in fact, if I look at the
>> package list with dselect, the storebackup package is not held.
>
>  Does "aptitude show storebackup" show it being held?  

No.  It does not show it as held even when setting the held status with
dselect.

>Does it get upgraded by "aptitude safe-upgrade"?

I do not know.  This is a package that I do not want to paly with, as it
is important to me.

Can't you reproduce what I observe?

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