You're right btw that it's a dpkg bug, but it's a bit more subtle. The
cleanup that dpkg performs after installation is meant to preserve the
hold state for non-installed packages. This is handled by the
pkg_is_informative function, which classifies everything with "pkg->want
!= PKG_WANT_UNKNOWN"
Whether it's a bug in apt or in something used by apt doesn't really
make a difference from an end user perspective. Can this bug be reopened
as a dpkg bug, then, or should I report that as a new bug?
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Public bug reported:
When a package is not installed and apt dist-upgrade offers to install
it, if this is not desired, it is possible to hold the package using
multiple tools, which puts it in a state documented in dpkg.1 as:
hold
A package marked to be on hold is kept on the
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