On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 15:08:47 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:16:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Ma, 22 mar 11, 00:37:35, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:23:42PM +0000, Owen Dunn wrote: > > > > Package: release-notes > > > > > > > > Chapter 4 of the squeeze release notes asks one to search for holds > > > > by typing: > > > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections | grep hold > > > > > > > > This will erroneously match any packages whose names contain the > > > > string `hold' > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections | grep 'hold$' > > > > > > I guess this should fix it although it complicates things. > > > > > > It is a question of addressing very corner case or keep it simple. > > > > $ apt-cache search -n hold > > holdingnuts-server - poker server > > holdingnuts - poker client > > > > (I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in sources.list) > > > > but those two packages are not present in lenny. Maybe postpone this > > issue for wheezey? > > That would mean now then. Please find attached a straightforward patch > for this issue. Thanks in advance for your reviews, rewrites, remarks or > simple acknowledgments. > I wouldn't bother, tbh. It still complicates things, and still has dubious practical benefit. Cheers, Julien
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