Comment 0 for bug 42178

Package: synaptic
Version: 0.53.4-5
Severity: minor

I assume the 'hold' you refer to in README.Debian is the 'locking'
of a version in the interface's package menu. Well, I tried to lock
APT to 0.5.26 for testing purposes, then installed a package and
quit the programme. Subsequently, APT tried to update to APT 0.5.27
from the command line.

I noticed how you use ~/.synaptic/preference instead. I wonder why,
but in any case... could you either

  - make synaptic use the global preferences file to incorporate it
    with the rest of the system, or
  - document that it uses pinning, but only internally. you might
    just leave that out since the it just does not matter and is of
    no interest.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-cirrus
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
pn hermes1 Not found.
pn libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2 Not found.
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
pn libpng2 Not found.
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
pn libtiff3g Not found.
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-1 shared library for GIF images (run
pn libwraster2 Not found.
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime

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