* Julian Andres Klode: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> It seems that “apt upgrade” clears “apt-mark hold” (in buster, so apt >> 1.8.2 or thereabouts). APT does not install recommended packages >> which are marked as held even if new packages with new Recommends: >> dependencies on the held package are installed, which is a useful >> feature. But it does not work reliably due to the behavior of “apt >> upgrade”. >> >> Would you consider the clearing of package hold information a bug? > > dpkg clears holds for non-installed packages after performing installs > - this is not an apt bug.
Aha! Is it a dpkg bug then?