Per bdmurray's guidance, I have also now tested through update-manager, by unselecting those packages not needed to be upgraded to test this, and confirmed that I get the right result this way also. (Selecting software-properties-gtk for installation is sufficient for update-manager to automatically resolve the dependencies on libgtk2-perl and friends.)
Per bdmurray's guidance, I have also now tested through update-manager, by unselecting those packages not needed to be upgraded to test this, and confirmed that I get the right result this way also. (Selecting software- properties- gtk for installation is sufficient for update-manager to automatically resolve the dependencies on libgtk2-perl and friends.)