Simple reproducer: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/test.list deb [trusted=yes] copy://home/adconrad/apt-test ./ # cat /home/adconrad/apt-test/Packages Package: apt Priority: important Section: admin Architecture: amd64 Version: 99:1 Depends: test (>= 99:1) # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade | grep upgraded 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get autoremove | grep upgraded 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. # apt-get upgrade | grep upgraded 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. # apt-get install hello | grep upgraded 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Note that only "dist-upgrade" appears to fail to report the package being held because it's uninstallable. -- 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/1589204 Title: apt-get dist-upgrade and apt full-upgrade not reporting held back package Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Trusty: New Status in apt source package in Xenial: New Bug description: I have the situation where a package cannot be upgraded because of missing dependencies. However sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo apt full-upgrade and sudo apt upgrade all show 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Only sudo apt-get upgrade shows 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 1 not to upgrade. I believe all of the above commands should show that 1 cannot be upgraded. This bug is not about the particular package I am trying to install, but about the way apt reports the problem. The details, for reference, are that I am trying to upgrade mosquitto from the mosquitto ppa. After apt-get update I see $ apt-cache policy mosquitto mosquitto: Installed: 1.4.8-1build1 Candidate: 1.4.9-0mosquitto1 Version table: 1.4.9-0mosquitto1 500 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages *** 1.4.8-1build1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status but if I try to manually install mosquitto I get The following packages have unmet dependencies. mosquitto : Depends: libwebsockets3 (>= 1.2) but it is not installable and $ apt-cache policy libwebsockets3 libwebsockets3: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Due to the fact that libwebsockets3 is not available for Xenial. As I said this bug is not about the problem with this particular package but about the fact that apt does not report that there is a package to be upgraded, but it cannot be done. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Jun 5 08:45:33 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-21 (592 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20141017) SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-06 (90 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1589204/+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
