When NOTIFY_HOLDS=0, apticron should ignore new packages depended on by held ones

[Jonathan Kamens]

When NOTIFY_HOLDS=0, apticron shouldn't notify about a new package that is an install candidate only because it is a dependency of the new version of a package currently being held.

For example, if linux-headers-generic is held and NOTIFY_HOLDS=0, then apticron shouldn't notify about a kernel-specific headers package, i.e., linux-headers-#-generic, that the new version of linux-headers-generic depends on.

Patch attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: apticron 1.2.3+nmu1 [modified: usr/sbin/apticron]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.10.0-14.15-generic 5.10.11
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu60
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 23 16:36:42 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (811 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apticron
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-02-21 (30 days ago)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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