Bug#28528: apt: installing packages which are hold?

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> 
> why is apt-get installing a new apache-common even if it recognizes that the
> package is on hold?.

Because php3 depends on apache-common 1.3.3 (it doesnt work with other
versions). It can't install php3 without upgrading apache-common. This is
a non-bug and should be closed. If you want to use php3 with apache-ssl,
you should upgrade to apache-ssl 1.3.3+something (along with
apache-common). 

> 1root@lina:/usr/doc# apt-get install php3
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   apache-common
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   php3
> TThe following held packages will be changed:
>   apache-common
> 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 751k of archives. After unpacking 1191k will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Get ftp://ftp.inka.de unstable/main apache-common [474k]
> 0%  [apache-common `logging in' 0/474k 0%]

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