Comment 0 for bug 1978125

Did some upgrades on a new box on 22.04, and had previously removed snapd and BLOCKED via a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d/

And this upgrade cycle REINSTALLED snapd! and the stupid FF snap! Had to repurge it again!

I had done this previously, and it appears that apt or something is IGNORING any pin/holds of snapd

I use preferences.d files as using:
sudo apt-mark hold snapd

This has never worked on any package, ever...

I have:
/etc/apt/preferences.d$ cat snapd

Package: snapd
Pin: origin *
Pin-Priority: -1

And that previously resulted in an error on apt in any attempt to install snapd, including using -s... NOW it will still attempt to install snapd!

I've tried several variants of this as well, which other 22.04 and 20.04 boxes have, same on 22.04, it will allow snapd install!

Did sudo apt-get update, apt update several times, rebooted several times, had various levels of the Pin-Priority from -1 to -9999, still will attempt to install snapd, versus the expected error

sudo apt-get -s install snapd

Expected error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Package snapd is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'snapd' has no installation candidate

20.04 boxes still seem to fail correctly with this pin file,.....

Checking my BASE VM IMAGE of 22.04 and this still works there, as its not been touched, this pin file blocks snapd from installing as expected... this is apt 2.3.15, updated one is 2.4.5....

If I pick ANY OTHER RANDOM PACKAGE out and use the same pin/block file, and change the name to that package, it blocks it from installing! Anything but snapd this works for!

1)$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release: 22.04

2) sudo apt-cache policy apt
apt:
  Installed: 2.4.5
  Candidate: 2.4.5
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.5 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expect to happen? HONOR MY BLOCK on snapd! It works for any random package chosen, EXCEPT snadp!