[PLUG] Forbidding a version of a package in debian

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

I'm running debian testing.  I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday
and it wants to install buggy version of libfreetype6 that will break
my window manager.  I'd like to put that on hold until things get
sorted out.  I read through the aptitude man page and this looked like
the proper way to do it:

  aptitude forbid-version libfreetype6=2.1.10-1

When I run "aptitude show libfreetype6" it says that version is
forbidden:

  Forbidden version: 2.1.10-1

but dist-upgrade still wants to install it.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Walt

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