Not sure who all the upstream(s) involved might be, but from my personal PoV at least you can add all the options you like… the topic gets harder if we talk defaults & changing (e.g.) the lists completely (like that tabular verbose-explosion thingy from apk or whatever it was). At some point it might make sense to extended apt-patterns so that current (and future) lists can be expressed in them and then add some more options to format those lists/tables/… at which point we could have different templates and so options/choices galore. I think aptitude has formatting to some extend of its lists. One of my first apt patches that was never merged was actually about reordering/coloring the lists… that failed, so I am very positive that a much bigger yak will be shaved more easily and faster many years later. ;)
Precedence of the initial ask is 'can be autoremoved' btw, which is not displayed, displays a full list, an even fuller list in version mode or displays a single line with how many packages could be autoremoved depending on config. P.S.: On a multi-arch system nearly every Depends is a choice even without or-groups: given that you e.g. pick banana:amd64 or banana:i386 for an M-A:foreign banana. And the t64 transition added a quadrillion of real vs. virtual bananas at least until everyone depends on bananat64. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1988819 Title: When apt keeps back packages due to phased updates, it should list them separately Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: After phased updates have been introduced, it may happen that apt upgrade shows packages as upgradable but ends up not upgrading them. In this case the packages are indicated as being "kept back". Unfortunately, the feedback provided about this to the user is not very informative. The user sees the packages being kept back and thinks something is going wrong on the system. When packages are kept back because of phased updates, apt should say so e.g., it should say that the upgrade is delayed. Incidentally note that aptitude does not respect phased updates. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: apt 2.4.7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-47.51-generic 5.15.46 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-47-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Sep 6 10:05:14 2022 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-16 (933 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017) SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-06-03 (94 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1988819/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
