Comment 16 for bug 2030262

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Ricardo Dias Marques (ricmarques) wrote (last edit ):

Regarding the (very well intentioned) suggestion by @ishmaeljx in comment #10 to disable Phased Updates, I may be wrong but I believe that suggestion will only increase the likelihood of installing the troublesome updates. I say that based on the following question and answers taken from https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/about-apt-upgrade-and-phased-updates :

"(...) Can I turn off phased updates?

That depends on how stable you need your system to be. If you just want to avoid any notices about packages being held back during apt updates, and you’re willing to be one of the first people to get updates whenever they’re released, you can turn off phased updates. Be warned, though – if an update is broken, you will almost always be in the first set of people to get it (i.e., you’re basically volunteering yourself as a guinea pig for the early update releases!). It will get rid of the “held back packages” in apt message, though.

If that doesn’t sound like something you want, leave phased updates on (this is the default). You will still temporarily get the “held back packages” message, but your machine will be more protected from updates that might otherwise break it – and once the packages are ready to be safely installed on your system, they will no longer be held back.(...)"