And it would be great if someone provided a workaround in the meantime (what currently needs to be done to hold a package in _all_ Debian package management utilities)?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:37 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Quoting anatoly techtonik ([email protected]): > >> Why is it so hard to fix this, i.e. to teach aptitude update apt-get > >> structures for packages that aptitude puts on hold? > >> > >> This inconsistency is already causing troubles with SCM tools. > >> http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/ticket/1066 > >> > >> > > > > Anybody is free to send a patch if this is "not so hard". > > > > (please note that I am *not* the aptitude maintainer) > > Ok, I'll ask it the other way. Can anybody, who investigated the > problem tell - why is it so hard to fix this? > > P.S. I can send patches in Python, not C++ > -- > anatoly t. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. >
