On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Stepan Golosunov <stepan@golosunov.pp.ru> wrote: > apt-mark hold and apt-mark unhold (as well as aptitude hold) do not > work on Architecture: all packages: (cc'ing aptitude-team so they can have a look and if it effects them, too, clone the bug or something) The problem here is that APT (as defined by spec) handles arch:all packages as if they would be arch:native packages for various reasons (like supporting changes from arch:all to arch:any and vice versa). dpkg doesn't handle it that way in input (for - again - various reasons), so the attached patch tries to use the architecture of the installed version so dpkg gets the correct architecture as input, hopefully. If aptitude is really effected, it might be something completely different as packages previously had no architecture (only versions had). [For wheezy+1 we should have a look at providing this functionality in libapt as it slowly becomes quiet a bit of code …] Best regards David Kalnischkies
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