Package: update-manager Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-11 Severity: important Currently my APT configuration is such that it believes that it should upgrade qemu to the sid version (although I run etch with APT::Default-Release "stable"), that's because I have a custom qemu installed (not marked "on hold" as I should have done it).
$ LANG=C apt-cache policy qemu qemu: Installed: 0.9.0-1~db1 Candidate: 0.9.0-2 Version table: 0.9.0-2 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages *** 0.9.0-1~db1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.8.2-4etch1 0 990 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages 990 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch-proposed-updates/main Packages 0.8.2-4 0 990 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch/main Packages Of course this qemu can't be upgraded without uppgrading the rest of the system. So update-manager warns me of updated packages that it can't install because other packages are needed and/or need to to be removed. Depite of this, update-manager happily proposed me to install "bochbios, vgabios, proll and openhackware" which are new dependencies of qemu and which aren't needed if you don't upgrade qemu (which is not really doable anyway). Of course those packages are currently NOT installed. Then, I decided to mark qemu on hold to make it clear that I don't want to upgrade that package. $ dpkg --get-selections | grep ^qemu qemu hold Same behaviour... so it seems that update-manager's algorithm doesn't respect my wish to keep a package at the current version. That's another bug... Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (990, 'proposed-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages update-manager depends on: ii libgnome2-perl 1.040-1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar ii lsb-release 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-apt 0.6.19 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-glade2 2.8.6-8 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gnome2 2.12.4-6 Python bindings for the GNOME desk ii python-gnupginterface 0.3.2-9 Python interface to GnuPG (GPG) ii python-support 0.5.6 automated rebuilding support for p ii synaptic 0.57.11.1+b1 Graphical package manager update-manager recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]