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Bug#533264: marked as done (release-notes: aptitude unhold is broken in etch)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #533264,
regarding release-notes: aptitude unhold is broken in etch
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Package: release-notes
Version: lenny
Severity: normal

Section 4.2.3. Checking packages status says:

-----------<snip>-----------
It is desirable to remove any holds before upgrading.
<snip>
 package state for aptitude can be changed using:

# aptitude hold package_name

Replace hold with unhold to unset the "hold" state. 
-----------<snip>-----------

The last sentence is wrong.  Aptitude unhold is broken
in etch and does nothing (AFIK).   The work-around is to
instead do:

aptitude install package_name+

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Thanks for reporting! since lenny is now obsolete this bug will now be
closed as it does not seem to be happening anymore

We are sorry it could not make it to lenny :(

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