[Bug 795602] [NEW] Please backport aptitude 0.6.3-3.2

[Marcus Bointon]

Public bug reported:

I've just run into this nasty bug in aptitude that renders it entirely unusable for me:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580

There is a workaround, which is to revert to apt-get, which isn't broken
in this way, however, I'm sure we're not meant to be migrating in that
direction.

I'm not sure if this is a security concern, but it certainly has
potential to cause huge damage, e.g. by allowing installation of
packages that have been specifically blocked. I ran into this on MySQL
where it was ignoring a pin that meant it wanted to upgrade from 5.1 to
5.5 as a regular update, which could be fatal to many apps.

0.6.3-3.2 is in Natty, but not Maverick, so I guess Maverick suffers the
same problem. If this backport has too much overhead, is it worth
reporting as a bug against 4.11 to fix just this problem? The
alternative is to never use aptitude again!

** Affects: lucid-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Please backport aptitude 0.6.3-3.2

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