It's confusing but the first message shows you how many packages have a newer candidate version and can be upgraded for no other reason which maps directly to upgradable both --upgradable and ?upgradable, and changing that to exclude phased updates would be a strange ABI break. Note that people do use install ?upgradable to upgrade packages that are phasing.
We don't have a good answer here, there is a wider conflict between upgradable and will-be-upgraded, not just for phasing but also for packages missing dependencies, or packages conflicting with installed ones, and it's good to be aware that not all upgradable packages can or will actually be upgraded. All of these cases are more complex than the phased case, and we can't handle them, so I'm wary of watering down the distinction we have now for that one special case and potentially break people. -- 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/2093416 Title: 7 packages can be upgraded is printed, when they cannot Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: $ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://ddebs.ubuntu.com noble InRelease ... Fetched 48.8 kB in 2s (26.5 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 7 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. $ sudo apt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing: bind9-dnsutils bind9-host bind9-libs file-roller python3-distupgrade ubuntu-release-upgrader-core ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Imho it shouldn't say in the first message that 7 packages can be upgraded, as they are actually cannot be upgraded as they are being deferred. I would prefer nothing being mentioned or mention that 7 are deferred. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/2093416/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
