I find it very odd to see the defect I just found moving from Xubuntu 16.04 to Xubuntu 20.04.2 and Synaptic not respecting locked package versions already reported as of 2006-04-29!
Synaptic, for us, had always respected when we would put a lock on a certain package. That is no longer respected in 20.04.2. I inquired about the trouble here: "20.04.2 system - Will not respect Synaptic package lock at a specific version" https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2464498&p=14047839 The workaround I found is: $ sudo apt-mark hold firefox-esr-mozilla-build $ sudo apt-mark hold firefox-mozilla-build $ apt-mark showhold firefox-esr-mozilla-build firefox-mozilla-build When I started, apt-mark did not see the lock on the two packages the Synaptic UI still recognized. Now Synaptic no longer tries to update the packages from the versions I want maintained. So Synaptic appears not to leverage the same flag that apt-mark is using? That seems odd and incorrect if that is the case. I would think to be dpkg compatible, Synaptic should use the same flag as other dpkg / apt tools, no? Anyway, for us this is a definite new break moving from 16.04 to 20.4.2 versions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42178 Title: synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/42178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
