Re: Clearing hold data on upgrade
* Julian Andres Klode:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> It seems that “apt upgrade” clears “apt-mark hold” (in buster, so apt
>> 1.8.2 or thereabouts). APT does not install recommended packages
>> which are marked as held even if new packages with new Recommends:
>> dependencies on the held package are installed, which is a useful
>> feature. But it does not work reliably due to the behavior of “apt
>> upgrade”.
>>
>> Would you consider the clearing of package hold information a bug?
>
> dpkg clears holds for non-installed packages after performing installs
> - this is not an apt bug.
Aha! Is it a dpkg bug then?
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