[Bug 1527166] Re: cron.daily/apt reports MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers..."

[Thomas A. F. Thorne]

Seen in an email this morning from a 16.04 system:
/etc/cron.daily/apt:
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-tools-3.13.0-107-generic'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-tools-3.13.0-107'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers-4.4.0-59-generic'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers-4.4.0-59'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-cloud-tools-3.13.0-107'
MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-cloud-tools-3.13.0-107-generic'

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Title:
  cron.daily/apt reports MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg:
  'linux-headers..."

Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Today I received the following messages from /etc/cron.daily/apt on my
  14.04 LTS server

  MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers-3.13.0-73'
  MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-image-extra-3.13.0-73-generic'
  MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-image-3.13.0-73-generic'
  MarkUpgrade() called on a non-upgrable pkg: 'linux-headers-3.13.0-73-generic'

  
  First of all I suppose  the message should read  non-upgradable
  non-upgrable is possibly incorrect and should be corrected.

  Secondly I have no clue, what this message means so the error message
  should be revised to give more details.

  I think this as a minor bug but messages should always be correct,
  precise and possibly helpful.

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