Comment 3 for bug 17092

Still found in synaptic/0.75.13.

The menu item is “Package/Lock Version”. Activating this will lock a package to it's current version using APT “pinning” (see apt_preferences(5), although that is really an implementation detail).

The status filter, “Pinned”, selects only packages that are pinned in synaptic's private preferences file (that is, those packages which have been “Locked” in the menu). This does not pick up any other packages subject to APT pinning, and this filter should at least be renamed to “Locked” to match the menu item, rather than the underlying mechanism.

However, apt and other frontends use the term “hold” for “keep package at current version”. Better is for synaptic to use /var/lib/dpkg/status holds instead of private APT pinning. See bug #42178. Both items should then be changed to say “hold”.