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 frontend for the apt package managent system. > It allows you to perform all actions of the command line tool apt-get in a > graphical environemnt. > This includes installing, upgrading, downgrading and removing of single > packages > or even upgrading your whole system. And in the help menu of Synaptic, too. In the section "To Lock a Package to the Current Version (Debian only)" there is not enough emphasis on the fact that the actions aren't disabled system-wide -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42178 Title: synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/42178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
