Debian Bug report logs - #13213
dpkg: hold status is lost after manual upgrade

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Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 10:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.4.0.19

Done: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@iname.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#13213; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg: hold status is lost after manual upgrade
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 18:22:21 +0000
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.19

If a package is placed on hold in dselect, I'd expect it to remain that
way until I removed the hold. However if I install a new version manually
using "dpkg -i ..." then the hold status is lost.

Adrian
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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#13213; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to storm@gate.net:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 13213@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Scott K. Ellis" <storm@gate.net>
To: adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com, 13213@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#13213: dpkg: hold status is lost after manual upgrade
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:23:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.19
> 
> If a package is placed on hold in dselect, I'd expect it to remain that
> way until I removed the hold. However if I install a new version manually
> using "dpkg -i ..." then the hold status is lost.

Actually, I personally prefer the way it works now.  If I've put something
on hold, it was presumably because I didn't want to download the newer
version or it had conflicts I couldn't resolve.  Once I've installed a
newer copy of it, my reasons for it being on hold are generally gone.  It
isn't that much trouble to put it on hold again when it comes up in
dselect.

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    Scott K. Ellis     |     first minute you meet than your acquaintances
    storm@gate.net     |           will know you in a thousand years.
                       |                      -- Illusions



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#13213; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 13213@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com>
To: storm@gate.net
Cc: apb25@irwell.zetnet.co.uk, 13213@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#13213: dpkg: hold status is lost after manual upgrade
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:23:20 +0000
On Sep 20, Scott K. Ellis wrote
> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> 
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.4.0.19
> > 
> > If a package is placed on hold in dselect, I'd expect it to remain that
> > way until I removed the hold. However if I install a new version manually
> > using "dpkg -i ..." then the hold status is lost.
> 
> Actually, I personally prefer the way it works now.  If I've put something
> on hold, it was presumably because I didn't want to download the newer
> version or it had conflicts I couldn't resolve.  Once I've installed a
> newer copy of it, my reasons for it being on hold are generally gone.  It
> isn't that much trouble to put it on hold again when it comes up in
> dselect.

I sometimes use it for large packages which I don't want to download
everytime there is a minor change - xbooks for instance. There is
probably a better way to do this with dpkg-ftp or dftp but I havn't
investigated. If the current behaviour is preferred then that's fine with
me, but it should be documented.

Adrian
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Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #20 received at 13213-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@iname.com>
To: 13213-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: dpkg: hold status is lost after manual upgrade
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 21:03:29 +0100
closing this old bug.  I think Scott is right and that it should do this.

Adrian (using the "bugs by submitter" page)

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