Description

Placing a package on 'hold' will keep it from being upgraded automatically (or even suggested to be upgraded). It would be nice if I could put a package on hold enterprise-wide, without having to put a temporary exec statement into my manifests and instead be able to add it to my package definition.

With aptitude you can do this with "aptitude hold <packagename>", with apt I think you need to do "dpkg --set-selections <package> hold"