[wishlist] update-manager doesn't honor "hold" flag for packages
Bug #317535 reported by
Bogdan Butnaru
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #75332: aptitude has private package holds, should use dpkg.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Hello!
I have a package I marked with "hold" in aptitude, because the later versions cause problems. Aptitude uses it correctly, meaning that "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" don't offer to upgrade it. apt-get also keeps back the package on "update" and "dist-upgrade".
However, the "updates available" icon stays up all the time, and the package manager always offers to update the package. Both are wrong I, think.
It's OK that it doesn't offer the option of holding packages via UI, that's a complex enough operation and users needing it can use apt. But interfering with apt is a different matter altogether.
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Hi Bogdan!
I've tried to reproduce this issue using Ubuntu 8.10 and I could reproduce this problem. For this reason I'm going to mark this report as confirmed. I'm going to change the title since it is a wishlist bug and doesn't belong only to jaunty. Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better!