Comment 2 for bug 42178

Hi, I'm not sure I understand Martin's suggestions, but if the situation
is that synaptic doesn't use /var/lib/dpkg/status to save the locked
packages because users were confused by apt-get being influenced by
synaptic so synaptic got its own file storing locked packages, please
consider this message as a wish to make optional using either the global
APT file or a synaptic-specific one.
I usually assume that a synaptic feature that has an effect equivalent
to an APT feature will be "compatible" with the APT feature, but the
current behavior of synaptic for locking breaks this expectation.