when setting a package to hold in aptitude does this mean apt-get knows about it?

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Subject: when setting a package to hold in aptitude does this mean apt-get knows about it?
From: Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.96.1020705112420.18294E-100000@mfcf.math.uwaterloo.ca>

I ask because it is unclear from apt-cache show package whether it really
is being held?

-walter


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