always wants to do a dist-upgrade if some packages are held back, check should be more intelligent
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Whenever I run update-manager now, it tells me it wants to do a dist-upgrade. I say no and go through the (non dist-)upgrade process and everything update and there are no new updates that need applying. Even allowing update-manager to then try the dist-upgrade that it says it needs produces a dialog that says that there are no updates needed.
Obviously the assessment that a dist-upgrade needs doing is inaccurate.
Why do I care? Because the updater for the dist-upgrade is less useful than the regular update-manager as it does not allow me to look at the changelogs for the packages to be dist-upgraded. Perhaps if this were fixed I wouldn't care about doing a dist-upgrade every time. Maybe I would still though.
In an earlier version update-manager didn't show updates that update-manager could not handle. Please make sure that you use the latest update-manager.
Run "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" in a terminal to check if there are any outstanding updates.
The dialog only appears on development distributions and if third party repositories are in use.