Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b1 Severity: normal I do
# aptitude hold storebackup Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done No message tells anything about holding. And in fact, if I look at the package list with dselect, the storebackup package is not held. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Apr 16 2009 23:38:07 Compiler: g++ 4.3.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090523 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff18ffe000) libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7 (0x00007f6f10afa000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f6f108af000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6f106aa000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f6f103d7000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f6f1015e000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f6f0fdf2000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6f0fbdb000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6f0f9c0000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6f0f6b1000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6f0f42e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6f0f213000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6f0eec0000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f6f0ecbd000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6f0eab9000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6f10dbb000) Terminal: screen.linux $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, lc_ctype=it...@euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.12-2 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.79 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org