* Guillem Jover: > On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 14:33:06 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * 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? > > Yes, a regression that is already fixed in master, will be included in > the next dpkg release: > > > <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=c89140d8bfe69637e50d25949c655cd03d19c6ab>
Nice. Will this also land in buster? Thanks.