Ubuntu
update-manager package

update manager doesn't honor (eg. synaptic) pinned packages

Bug #84176 reported by Dominik Sauer on 2007-02-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #42178: synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

update manager doesn't honor (eg. synaptic) pinned packages

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2007-11-14:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. With which version of Ubuntu did you notice this issue? Thanks in advance.

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Dominik Sauer (dominik-sauer) wrote on 2007-11-17:

Certainly it affected Ubuntu 6.10, I'm not sure about 7.04 beta.

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Nick Andrik (andrikos) wrote on 2008-01-12:

The problem persists in 7.10
What is strange is that I have a package pinned in synaptic, but if I press mark all upgrades then that specific package is selected for upgrade.

Anyway, I think that all comes from the fact that there is no single way to pin packages in a ubuntu system (synaptic update_manager apt use different backends).
If you agree I would suggest to mark this bug a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/42178
and file a bug to ask for use of the apt pinning method for all the applications.