Package: apt
Version: 3.0.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: none
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
The relatively new --update option is quite great, thanks for adding that!
It is nice to have compose-ability on options, and the list --upgradable is
likely a good candidate for an exception.
# apt list --upgradable --update
Error: Command line option --update is not understood in combination with
the other options
It would be nice to have support for running metadata updates on list.
There may be some updates between the last automated update, and the time of
running the command.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
The full shell session may be useful to grasp why this could be a good idea:
when running before the metadata updates, 5 packages were identified for
update, and after, there there 9.
# apt list --upgradable --update
Error: Command line option --update is not understood in combination with
the other options
# apt list --upgradable
firefox-esr-l10n-es-ar/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-cl/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-es/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-mx/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 amd64 [upgradable from:
140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
# apt update
Get:1 https://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease
[43,4 kB]
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
Get:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47,3 kB]
Get:4 https://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security/main
amd64 Packages [47,7 kB]
Fetched 138 kB in 1s (122 kB/s)
9 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
# apt list --upgradable
firefox-esr-l10n-es-ar/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-cl/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-es/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr-l10n-es-mx/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 all [upgradable
from: 140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
firefox-esr/stable-security 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1 amd64 [upgradable from:
140.3.0esr-1~deb13u1]
gimp-data/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u1 all [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3]
gimp/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u1 amd64 [upgradable from: 3.0.4-3]
gir1.2-gimp-3.0/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u1 amd64 [upgradable from:
3.0.4-3]
libgimp-3.0-0/stable-security 3.0.4-3+deb13u1 amd64 [upgradable from:
3.0.4-3]
* What was the outcome of this action?
A manual apt update was needed to get the right status.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Doing it all it one command would be so nice, e.g. apt list --upgradable
--update, could run metadata updates, and then list the set of packages for
upgrade, so the status is current at the listing time.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/sources.list present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources --
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb-src
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb
URIs: https://security.debian.org/debian-security
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie-updates
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb-src
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie-updates
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=es_PE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_PE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=es_PE:es
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii base-passwd 3.6.7
ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1
ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.3
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2
ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
ii sqv 1.3.0-3
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20250419
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21
ii gnupg 2.4.7-21
pn powermgmt-base <none>
-- no debconf information
