I didn't remember the discussions with the dpkg maintainer about this, but I did find them now, and he basically pointed at the same thing.
Anyway, this is not a common use case, so there's no point adding an extra delta here. Use pinning in apt instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1904195 Title: apt cancels holds on uninstalled packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1904195/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
