Bug#816959: apticron: Error with packages on hold.

[Rick Thomas]

Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.58
Followup-For: Bug #816959

Dear Maintainer,

 Me too...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), 
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-marvell
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)


Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii  apt1.3~rc1
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3
ii  bzip2  1.0.6-8
ii  cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59
ii  dpkg   1.18.10
ii  ucf3.0036

Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii  apt-listchanges  2.89
ii  iproute2 4.6.0-2

apticron suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  apticron/notification: root

Bug#816959: apticron: Error with packages on hold.

[Michel]

Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.58
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When packages are placed on hold; in this case with aptitude, getting
the following emails:

1. Subject:  No updates for ...

   Message:  No new packages today.

2. Subject:  Cron  if test -x /usr/sbin/apticron; then 
/usr/sbin/apticron --cron; else true; fi

   Message:  E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without 
--allow-change-held-packages.

Get email number 1 and right after get email number 2.

There are updates available even though email number 1 says there none.
When the hold on the packages are removed with aptitude, apticron works
as expected.

Thank You,
Michel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii  apt1.2.4
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-2
ii  bzip2  1.0.6-8
ii  cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.58
ii  dpkg   1.18.4
ii  ucf3.0035

Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii  apt-listchanges  2.85.14
ii  iproute2 4.3.0-1+b1

apticron suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded