Ubuntu
aptitude package

  1. Bug #75332
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 75332

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Ahmad Syukri Abdollah (syockit) wrote : Re: Held back packages not ignored

I suppose aptitude uses a package state different than apt-get's? Lately, I seem to be addicted to using aptitude. But this bug here (about aptitude and dpkg)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174091
is a bummer. Installing Synaptic or using "dpkg --set-selections" seems to be the current viable workaround.