Bug#167381: apt: DSelect::Clean "auto" -- deletes on hold, installed package's *.deb files.

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@localnet.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

Hi,

Using dselect, apt is removing the *.debs for sendmail version
8.12.6-6 even though this version is installed and on hold.  The
version 8.12.6-7 is the available version according to the
Packages file.

    316 jsroot ~ # dselect
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Del sendmail 8.12.6-6 [959kB]
    Del sendmail-doc 8.12.6-6 [796kB]
    Press enter to continue.

    317 jsroot ~ # dpkg -l sendmail\*
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name           Version        Description
    +++-==============-==============-============================================
    hi  sendmail       8.12.6-6       A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Tra
    hi  sendmail-doc   8.12.6-6       A powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Tra
    un  sendmail-tls   <none>         (no description available)
    pn  sendmail-wide  <none>         (no description available)

    318 jsroot ~ # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
    // /etc/apt/apt.conf - apt configuration file directives.
    //
    // See /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz, apt.conf(5) and
    // apt-get(8) for details.

    // Options for apt-get
    APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";         // -u, --show-upgraded [false]
    APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false" ;        // "auto-cleanup $vlal" [true]

    // Things that effect the APT dselect method
    DSelect::Clean "auto";                  // always|auto|prompt|never [prompt]

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/sarge
Kernel Version: Linux l1.bsrd.net 2.4.19-1 #1 Sat Aug 24 17:01:11 EDT 2002 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11      The GNU stdc++ library