Locking packages in Synaptics broken?

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:19:18AM +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> I have currently a library installed from Debian (libsword4) as the
> equivalent version from Ubuntu creates Segmentation faults - see also
> the various Bibletime, Gnomesword threads)
> 
> I tried to lock the library to prevent automatic "upgrading" to ubuntu's
> broken version, but locking the package only results in not being
> visible in Synaptics list of modules "to be upgraded", it will be
> "upgraded" anyway.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is there an issue with Synaptics

This feature should work. Did you do the "upgrade" from within
synaptic or with apt-get? Synaptic does not export the "hold"
information (also it's technically easy) as this caused confusion for
some users. If synaptic does not honor the "hold" inside synaptic and
upgrades anyway, please file a bug against synaptic, I'll then ask for
more information.

thanks,
 Michael

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