On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:57:30 +0100, Francesco Namuri wrote:

> thanks for your bug report. I'm downgrading it to normal severity
> waiting for more information. IMHO this is not a bug but I'd like
> to see the error you're getting. Can you please attach it to
> this report?

What I get is a mail from cron:

  From: Cron Daemon <root@$domain>
  To: root@$domain
  Subject: Cron <root@$host> if test -x /usr/sbin/apticron; then 
/usr/sbin/apticron --cron; else true; fi
  Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:39:45 +0100

  E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without 
--allow-change-held-packages.

And that's all.
 
> Trying to automatically update a package that has the "held"
> flag it's a dangerous/unwanted behavior, IMHO the warning/error
> should be raised and the executions must stop.

It makes apticron pretty useless as I don't get any information about
which (held or not held) packages are available for updating.
 
> The solution proposed "allow-change-held-packages" it's also
> very dangerous, as you can see in the man page:

This is in a line with `apt-get -s' i.e. nothing is updated, it's
just about getting the list of packages by simulating an update.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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