Bug#38777: apt: internal error (problem resolver)

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> 
> >  this is some kind of addition to #38772, but essentially unrelated.
> >  I downloaded the new pgp-i version by manual ftp, and installed it
> >  with dpkg -i.
> >  Out of curiousity I tried
> > 
> > apt-get -df dist-upgrade
> 
> This is a misleading error message. The trouble is that you have placed to
> conflicting packages on hold - there is simply no way for APT to fix that
> without ignoring the hold so it bails somewhat ungracefully. I've improved
> the error message.

Wouldn't it make sense for apt to ignore the conflict if the packages are
on hold?  Because I'm assumed to know what I'm doing ... :) Maybe apt can
output a warning such as dpkg does when using --force-conflicts.

  Ulf