Package: apt Version: 1.4.6 Severity: normal I am using apt-mark to hold package a package that I don't want to be installed as a recommendation. But the hold seems to be lost after the next installation. For example, I can easily reproduce this on a clean unstable chroot: # apt-mark hold xmlto xmlto set on hold. # apt-mark showhold xmlto # apt-get install -qy bash-completion Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following NEW packages will be installed: bash-completion 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 178 kB of archives. After this operation, 1249 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian sid/main amd64 bash-completion all 1:2.1-4.3 [178 kB] Fetched 178 kB in 0s (12.2 MB/s) Selecting previously unselected package bash-completion. (Reading database ... 9089 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../bash-completion_1%3a2.1-4.3_all.deb ... Unpacking bash-completion (1:2.1-4.3) ... Setting up bash-completion (1:2.1-4.3) ... # apt-mark showhold # -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5 ii gpgv 2.1.18-8 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.6 ii libc6 2.24-11 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.18-8 ii gnupg1 1.4.21-4 ii gnupg2 2.1.18-8 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1 ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta3 -- no debconf information
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