There's some misconception here; held back is a package-level flag. ALinuxUser: Just use pinning instead of holds to achieve that.
-- 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: Confirmed 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
