Control: retitle -1 apt upgrade <pkg>: it removes packages when it shouldn't.
The case you mentioned is a tricky one, yes: *apt upgrade foo+ bar-* (I really don't know how apt handles it internally but having this option is very useful. Of course, I wouldn't remove it). I think it makes a lot of sense for "apt upgrade" to allow packages as arguments. There should be a possibility to upgrade only a set of packages and it comes in handy in some situations (i.e.: t64 upgrade). "apt upgrade" also doesn't mark upgraded packages as manually installed (as expected). But "apt install" does mark them as manually installed (as expected too). Therefore, I see 2 options here: a) Change apt documentation to include the current behaviour. But if so, it should *NOT* remove any packages. b) Remove the possibility to specify packages to upgrade as arguments (which I don't really recommend for the reasons stated above). Anyway, I think some clarification is needed from the developers to shed some light on this. Regards On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:12 AM Wesley Schwengle <wes...@schwengle.net> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:32:24PM +0100, Miguel Angel Rojas wrote: > > > I see. It looks like `apt upgrade <package>' behaves as `apt install > > > <package>'. Which (to me) is unexpected behaviour, as the man page is > > quite > > >clear on its behaviour (man 8 apt-get): > > > > Well, clearly it shouldn’t. To begin with, “apt install” should mark a > > package as manual installed while “apt upgrade” shouldn’t (my > assumption). > > And you’re right that “apt install” can remove a package if needed to > > satisfy dependencies. > > > > On top of that, documentation clearly states that “apt upgrade” should > not > > remove any package, but it does when you specify an individual package to > > upgrade. > > > > If this is not the expected behavior, maybe this is a bug (unless I am > > missing something here). > > I do not know what the bug here is, it could be one of these options: > > 1) apt-get/apt upgrade accepts packages to upgrade where the docs state it > doesn't. The behaviour needs to change to not accept packages. > > 2) apt-get/apt upgrade accepts packages and removes packages to satisfy > deps > where the docs state it doesn't. The behaviour need to change to not > remove > any packages. There is a small edge case where you can say: `apt > upgrade foo > bar-'. Technically, it shouldn't remove packages, yet you want and > instruct > it to remove bar. > > FWIW, aptitude does not remove packages where you call `aptitude > safe-upgrade > foo'. It does remove packages when you call `aptitude full-upgrade foo'. It > also removes bar when you run `aptitude safe-upgrade foo bar-'. > > I'll leave this for the maintainers to answer. > > Cheers, > Wesley > >
