I think this is solved to _some degree_ in Dapper (I don't have the workaround symlink). I have gaim (2beta) pinned via synaptic and apt doesn't suggest to upgrade them...
now the problem is, before I was posting this message, I unpinned the packages via synaptic, closed synaptic, issued apt-get update and: ~$ sudo apt-get -s upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: gaim 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. now apt won't upgrade it :) -- apt-get doesn't use the same pinning as synaptic https://launchpad.net/bugs/42178 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
