Comment 1 for bug 42178

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:00:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: synaptic
> Version: 0.53.4-5
> Severity: minor

Thanks for your bugreport.

> 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.

I'll probably go with the second suggestion. Synaptic used to use the
global preferences file, but I removed this feature. The problem was,
that people got confused that locking inside synaptic broke there
apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade. They filed bugs against apt about it.

thanks,
 Michael

> -- 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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