How to stop 'apt update' + 'apt upgrade' from updating one particular library?

[Lily White]

Though you've solved it I'd still like to ask whether it is indeed a 
regression in the package itself. If it is, did you report it to the 
maintainers' bug tracker?

On 2021/11/18 23:22, Chris Green wrote:
> There is a bug in the version 10.37 of libpcre2-8-0:amd64 which installs
> with [x]ubuntu 21.10.  The bug is not present in the previous version.
> 
> Is there any way to prevent apt from updating that particular library
> to the latest version when I do an overall 'apt update' and 'apt
> upgrade'?
> 
> Fortunately, at present, I have nothing which depends on the newest
> version of libpcre2-8-0:amd64 so everything works fine with the
> previous version.  Hopefully the bug will get fixed and I will be able
> to allow a newer version to be installed but for the present I want to
> lock my installed version of libpcre2-8-0:amd64 at 10.36.
> 

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