I get you what you say. But there is a distinction between (manually) upgradeable packages and packages that will be upgraded (automatically).
I'm not going to decide whether the status is Opinion, Won't Fix, or Triaged, as I'm not entirely sure what we really want to do. -- 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/1641303 Title: Wish: apt shouldn't show kept-back packages within the list of upgradable Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Should apt consider kept-back packages as upgradable? Current state is: 1. Within 'apt dist-upgrade' it doesn't. 2. Within 'apt list --upgradable' and 'apt update' it does. For example: $ sudo apt update > [...] > Fetched 94,5 kB in 1s (66,0 kB/s) > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it. $ apt list --upgradable > Listing... Done > nvidia-304/xenial-updates,xenial-security 304.132-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 amd64 [upgradable from: 304.131-0ubuntu3] > N: There is 1 additional version. Please use the '-a' switch to see it $ sudo apt dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > nvidia-304 > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS Release: 16.04 2) $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 Candidate: 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 Version table: *** 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 500 500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.2.10ubuntu1 500 500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 3) I expected output of 'apt update' and 'apt list --upgradable' to be consistent with output of 'apt dist-upgrade': i.e. if the former say there're upgradable packages, the latter should upgrade them. 4) 'apt update' and 'apt list --upgradable' consider kept-back packages as upgradable; luckily, 'apt dist-upgrade' doesn't. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Sat Nov 12 12:38:20 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-10 (367 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151110) SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1641303/+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
