Package: apt Version: 1.0.10.2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-get Dear Maintainer,
Occasionally there are many packages which have been "kept back" during apt-get upgrade. The solution to make that message go away is usually to install all of those packages, and to do that there is no easy way, you have to copy-paste the whole list of packages which have been kept back, into the line like: apt-get install some-package some-other-package ... This would be fine, except due to the way the list of kept-back packages is formatted when output to the console, you have to copy-paste each individual line of packages separately, because there is a tab character at the beginning and a line break at the end of each line of packages in the list. Sometimes there are 20+ lines of packages, so each line has to be meticulously copy-pasted one by one, until you have built up the final apt-get install command. This takes way too long and has been bothering me for years. Can we please change the formatting of the output of the "kept-back packages" list so it doesn't have any line breaks, and can be copy-pasted in one go? Or else can we have a single short command which installs all the packages which have been kept back? This sounds like a cosmetic change, but really it comes down to being an extreme inconvenience which has wasted hours of my time over the years I've been using Debian. Thank you for considering this request. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 ii gnupg 1.4.19-5 ii libapt-pkg4.16 1.0.10.2 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-22 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.7.2-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3 ii python-apt 1.0.1 ii synaptic 0.82 -- no debconf information
