On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 17:21:32 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 2008-08-09 17:11 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > > > I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold > > during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to > > upgrade two of them. [...] > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it will try to upgrade packages that you > don't want to. See http://bugs.debian.org/466228. Thank you Sven. I had already done a safe-upgrade earlier today so that explains why I encountered this bug for the first time. (I did look through the list of outstanding bugs but missed yours because it was a long way down the list!) Thanks again. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]