There is no strict alternative in apt. The closest would be `apt-get
upgrade` which does not install or remove dependencies. See
https://askubuntu.com/questions/117088/aptitude-safe-upgrade-equivalence-with-apt-get.
But there is also this bug which may be annoying
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b
You can write a small filter plugin that gives you the items of dicts
(something that simply returns an `item.values()` or something like that).
Then you could do:
vars:
# Will create a list of inner dict values inside a list of parent
dict's values
- firmware_items: "{{ firmware.values(