Hi, I'm not sure I understand Martin's suggestions, but if the situation
is that synaptic doesn't use /var/lib/dpkg/status to save the locked
packages because users were confused by apt-get being influenced by
synaptic so synaptic got its own file storing locked packages, please
consider this message as a wish to make optional using either the global
APT file or a synaptic-specific one.
I usually assume that a synaptic feature that has an effect equivalent
to an APT feature will be "compatible" with the APT feature, but the
current behavior of synaptic for locking breaks this expectation.
Hi, I'm not sure I understand Martin's suggestions, but if the situation dpkg/status to save the locked
is that synaptic doesn't use /var/lib/
packages because users were confused by apt-get being influenced by
synaptic so synaptic got its own file storing locked packages, please
consider this message as a wish to make optional using either the global
APT file or a synaptic-specific one.
I usually assume that a synaptic feature that has an effect equivalent
to an APT feature will be "compatible" with the APT feature, but the
current behavior of synaptic for locking breaks this expectation.