Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > > > this is some kind of addition to #38772, but essentially unrelated. > > I downloaded the new pgp-i version by manual ftp, and installed it > > with dpkg -i. > > Out of curiousity I tried > > > > apt-get -df dist-upgrade > > This is a misleading error message. The trouble is that you have placed to > conflicting packages on hold - there is simply no way for APT to fix that > without ignoring the hold so it bails somewhat ungracefully. I've improved > the error message.
Wouldn't it make sense for apt to ignore the conflict if the packages are on hold? Because I'm assumed to know what I'm doing ... :) Maybe apt can output a warning such as dpkg does when using --force-conflicts. Ulf
