Comment 12 for bug 1988819
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| Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote Re: When apt keeps back packages due to phased updates, it should say nothing | #12 |
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If phasing upgrades are hidden in upgrade output then the output shows you relevant info to the update only which is nice. I kind of feel like `apt upgrade` and friends should show you only unexpected things. Like often people install 100 packages and then miss that they also remove 20 that they did not want to.
Phased updates are list listed as upgradable in `apt list --upgradable`, in the `?upgradable` pattern, and can be updated using the `install` command (e.g. `apt install a-phased-package`); the policy command tells you if it is indeed phasing or not, but not whether it's phasing for you.
I admit it's confusing, but the next iteration should be to hide those upgrades (as they were for months) and then we can iterate on a nicer interface for the other side cases.