I find it very odd to see the defect I just found moving from Xubuntu
16.04 to Xubuntu 20.04.2 and Synaptic not respecting locked package
versions already reported as of 2006-04-29!
Synaptic, for us, had always respected when we would put a lock on a
certain package. That is no longer respected
I am not sure its the same bug, but using Ubuntu 8.10 suddenly synaptic
stopped working. If you click on the icon it requires sudoers password,
and then nothing happens. If you try to run it from terminal it starts
if you run it without administrative privileges. but sudo synaptic pails
with this
On my computers software update ignore locks in synaptic and dpkg too.
It would be better to fix software update or to remove the dysfunctional
function in both programs.
If a user set a lock for reason, the system should not override it.
Greetings
Eric
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1766161
has been marked a duplicate of this bug.
This issue may have been reported a long time ago, but it is still current
problem.
A simple solution would be a pop-up window in synaptic when you lock an
application, to warn the
This bug is so old that its status should be changed in Won't Fix.
I don't see it, but it'll be a good reason if the developers do not want
to implement the system-wide lock.
However, this behaviour should be clearly stated in the man synaptic(8) where
it says instead:
> Synaptic is a
It seems that bug is still actual for all LTS releases.
As I wrote on AskUbuntu question (https://askubuntu.com/q/1002703/66509)
nowadays only Muon uses system-wide pinning in
`/etc/apt/preferences.d/`.
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** Changed in: synaptic
Status: New = Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42178
Title:
synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold
To manage notifications
** Summary changed:
- apt-get doesn't use the same pinning as synaptic
+ synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold
** Description changed:
+ ‘Lock Version’ in Synaptic uses apt_preferences(5) (“pinning”). This is
+ never recognized by non-Apt tools, e.g. dpkg. Also, as these settings
