Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: normal
Setting a package in "iA" state on hold clears the automatic flag, but there's no reason it should. The auto state should be preserved when putting a package on hold, as forbid currently does. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: rxvt-unicode-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.3 Compiler: g++ 6.2.0 20160914 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160917 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffa7bfe000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f20930c3000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f2092e93000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f2092c69000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2092a62000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f2092765000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f209245b000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f2092243000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f209202a000) libboost_system.so.1.61.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f2091e26000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f2091a18000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f20917fb000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2091478000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2091174000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2090f5d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2090bbf000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f20909bb000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f20907a4000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2090588000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f2090378000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f2090152000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f208ff40000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f208fd38000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f208fb31000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055dbc2e0b000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.3-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3.1 ii libboost-filesystem1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1 ii libboost-system1.61.0 1.61.0+dfsg-3+b1 ii libc6 2.24-5 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-11 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160917-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.15.1-1 ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-11 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160917-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.1-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii debtags 2.1.2 pn tasksel <none>