Comment 2 for bug 12461

Created an attachment (id=1241)
Only evolution cannot be unlocked

This all started a long time ago in hoary.

At one point I used evolution and didn't want to break it by upgrading so it
was locked for a long time. 2.1.1 i think. Only recently did I realize it was
locked and I had to apt-get to install it. The evolution respritory version
went up while the package was locked, several times in fact. Over this period I
upgraded synaptic several times as well.

Running synaptic from the command line as a root shell doesn't seem to report
any error messages either.

With regards to your second comment, this seems to affect all packages
(regardless of status)... and I think I may have found another bug:

I just "Reload"ed the packages late last night and there is an upgradable
synaptic. Selecting lock on that package results in the same behavior (it is
locked even after unlocking and restarting the application). Furthermore, after
it is unlocked (and before you quit the application), synaptic reports that
current installed version is the latest version even though it is not (I know
for a fact there is a new version in the apt cache, but it no longer appears
upgradable through synaptic). So I am unable to upgrade the synaptic package
unless I remove this preferences file. I will attach another prefs file for
this example.