I've found that aptitude is missing one simple operation and want to make
sure I am not missing something before submitting a wishlist request on it.
I am riding all three trees with minimal problems. However from time to
time I do put packages on hold to prevent them from moving up to the next
tree or to prevent it from causing a mass package removal thanks to some
wayward dependency. I mainly ride testing with certain pulls into unstable
when some package has a feature that I want/need right away. I also
have aptitude not install suggests, requirements or automatically update
for obvious reasons. Here's the problem.
Let's say its smbfs I'm holding back to 2.2.3a (or whatever is in testing)
and unstable has 2.999 because something somewhere breaks on that dependency.
A few weeks down the road I want to remove that (and a dozen or so) holds
/without/ upgrading to the higher version. I just want to undo the hold,
nothing more. I find that I can change desired states (hold, install,
reinstall, uninstall, purge) but I have yet to find a way to restore it to its
current state without of those additional flags. Is it possible?
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