Setting uninstalled packages on hold with apt-mark

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

Skimming over the git log for the debian/experimental branch, I
noticed commit 374f8492e6f109e8427816a8f513e5e8feda9049, which does
not make much sense to me.

Uninstalled packages cannot be put on hold, dpkg will just ignore such
state, and mark it as «unknown ok not-installed» anyway. Was there any
other reason for that change?

(BTW, in case interfaces are not apt, I'd like to think a bug report or
a discussion in debian-dpkg might probably be more fruitful than snide
remarks on a commit message. :)

Thanks,
Guillem