Hello the list! I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and share it here shortly. In the meantime I have one question.
It seems like aptitude is falling out of favour in stretch, and apt as a command line tool as opposed to the name for the general entire package management system is being recommended these days. I've never been a huge fan of apt-get (although to be fair that means little more than I settled on aptitude [command-line version not ncurses version] and learned its quirks a long time ago) and so I am, somewhat reluctantly, making the switch to apt from aptitude. apt has a couple of features I really like, but I do wish apt show made it easier to tell if a package is installed -- you have to read a lot further down the info to find out. My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In aptitude I would have done aptitude why-not chromium and it would most likely have told me something useful about its dependencies. How can I get apt to do similar? Or what tool should I use? I'm aware that apt-cache depends chromium will tell me what it depends on, but that doesn't tell me what is stopping it from being upgraded. sudo apt upgrade and sudo apt full-upgrade both just tell me chromium has been kept back, but not why. sudo apt --fix-broken install finds nothing to do. Suggestions would be much appreciated. Mark