[wishlist] update-manager doesn't honor "hold" flag for packages

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Hello!

I have a package I marked with "hold" in aptitude, because the later versions cause problems. Aptitude uses it correctly, meaning that "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" don't offer to upgrade it. apt-get also keeps back the package on "update" and "dist-upgrade".

However, the "updates available" icon stays up all the time, and the package manager always offers to update the package. Both are wrong I, think.

It's OK that it doesn't offer the option of holding packages via UI, that's a complex enough operation and users needing it can use apt. But interfering with apt is a different matter altogether.

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hi Bogdan!

I've tried to reproduce this issue using Ubuntu 8.10 and I could reproduce this problem. For this reason I'm going to mark this report as confirmed. I'm going to change the title since it is a wishlist bug and doesn't belong only to jaunty. Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better!

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 75332, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.