On 2020-04-19 19:11 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Does holding a package to not-installed even work? I thought I'd tried >> that in the past, and had the result be ignored. > > No, it does work. Or at least it should, since you are holding the > package state, which is "uninstalled" at that moment.
Maybe it should work, but currently it does not. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929102. Cheers, Sven
