Bug#544481: Bug#557209: Bug#544481: apticron: apt-get dist-upgrade pulling required packages from unstable

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

> > If the user don't want to see it (s)he can e.g. put the not installed
> > package on hold and will be done with it?
> 
> This does not seem to work in all cases. I've recently struggled with a
> system that was trying to remove or upgrade packages that I had
> explicitly set on hold immediately before. But I made no recordings,
> so...

Here's a specific example, the two packages in question in the apticron 
bugs:

1) dash - I didn't have it installed to begin with, but I was able to 
install the stable version and put it on hold and that prevented 
dist-upgrade from wanting to upgrade it.

2) diffutils - This didn't exist as a binary package in stable, so there is 
nothing to install and put on hold. On #debian-backports we discussed the 
idea of backporting the testing version with "Essential: yes" removed (and 
converted to the old source format so it will work with backports). I might 
do that soon.

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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org