[Bug 1990280] Re: apt-get dist-upgrade does not upgrade some packages, only manual dist-upgrade possible by adding affected package to command line

Julian Andres Klode 1990280 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Sep 20 14:20:35 UTC 2022 

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1988819 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1988819

The behavior is expected at the moment as part of the phased updates
rework. These packages are not kept back due to broken dependencies, but
due to not yet being available for your system as they are still
phasing.

The behavior you are seeing when adding the libreoffice package
explicitly is correct, the other packages are still kept back. If you
passed the package name to the install command instead, it would be
upgraded. This might or might not be what you expect, it's highly
variable from one person to the next whether they expect install to
respect phased updates or not.

The suboptimal user experience is being tracked in bug 1988819 already,
so I am marking this bug as a duplicate.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1988819
   When apt keeps back packages due to phased updates, it should say so

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Title:
  apt-get dist-upgrade does not upgrade some packages, only manual dist-
  upgrade possible by adding affected package to command line

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Trying to use apt dist-upgrade mode to upgrade some packages results
  in such packages not upgraded. Some packages can be manually upgraded
  w/o problem (adding package name to dist-upgrade command line), others
  result in dependency error only solved by upgrading every other
  package that other package depends on which is annoying. Considering
  an expample below, it shows a wrong behavior and does not upgrade
  properly when it is expected to do that.

  juozas at xubuntu:~$ export LC_ALL=C
  juozas at xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    linux-headers-5.15.0-46 linux-headers-5.15.0-46-generic linux-image-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-46-generic
    linux-tools-5.15.0-46 linux-tools-5.15.0-46-generic
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages have been kept back:
    fonts-opensymbol libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core
    libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-help-common libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress
    libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-l10n-lt libreoffice-math libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer
    libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 python3-uno uno-libs-private ure
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
  juozas at xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade fonts-opensymbol
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    linux-headers-5.15.0-46 linux-headers-5.15.0-46-generic linux-image-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-46-generic
    linux-tools-5.15.0-46 linux-tools-5.15.0-46-generic
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages have been kept back:
    libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
    libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-help-common libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress
    libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-l10n-lt libreoffice-math libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer
    libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 python3-uno uno-libs-private ure
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    fonts-opensymbol
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
  Need to get 102 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
  Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 fonts-opensymbol all 2:102.12+LibO7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 [102 kB]
  Fetched 102 kB in 0s (340 kB/s)
  (Reading database ... 332342 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../fonts-opensymbol_2%3a102.12+LibO7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking fonts-opensymbol (2:102.12+LibO7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) over (2:102.12+LibO7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
  Setting up fonts-opensymbol (2:102.12+LibO7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
  Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.13.1-4.2ubuntu5) ...
  juozas at xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade libreoffice
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Error!
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libreoffice-base : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-base-core : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed or
                                    libreoffice-core-nogui (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but it is not installable
   libreoffice-calc : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-core : Breaks: libreoffice-base (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-calc (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-draw (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-gtk2 (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-gtk3 (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-impress (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
                      Breaks: libreoffice-writer (< 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-draw : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-gtk3 : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-impress : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-math : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   libreoffice-writer : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed
   python3-uno : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 is to be installed or
                          libreoffice-core-nogui (= 1:7.3.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  juozas at xubuntu:~$

  Only relevant apt pinning configuration change is an extra file in
  /etc/apt/preferences.d with contents as shown below

  Package: *
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-xtradeb-apps
  Pin-Priority: 400

  Other apt configuration

  # sources.list

  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy partner
  deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy partner

  Repo files

  # xtradeb-ubuntu-apps-jammy.list
  deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/xtradeb/apps/ubuntu/ jammy main
  # deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/xtradeb/apps/ubuntu/ jammy main

  # savoury1-ubuntu-chromium-jammy.list
  deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/chromium/ubuntu/ jammy main
  # deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/chromium/ubuntu/ jammy main

  # savoury1-ubuntu-ffmpeg4-jammy.list
  # deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/ffmpeg4/ubuntu/ jammy main
  # deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/ffmpeg4/ubuntu/ jammy main

  # winehq-jammy.sources
  Types: deb
  URIs: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu
  Suites: jammy
  Components: main
  Architectures: amd64 i386
  Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/winehq-archive.key

  # virtualbox.list
  deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/virtualbox.asc] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jammy contrib

  # mozillateam-ubuntu-ppa-jammy.list
  deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main
  # deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main

  Output of apt-cache policy:
  Package files:
   100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       release a=now
   400 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/xtradeb/apps/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-xtradeb-apps,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=xtradeb applications,c=main,b=i386
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   400 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/xtradeb/apps/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-xtradeb-apps,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=xtradeb applications,c=main,b=amd64
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main all Packages
       release o=dl.winehq.org,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=winehq,c=main,b=all
       origin dl.winehq.org
   500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
       release o=dl.winehq.org,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=winehq,c=main,b=i386
       origin dl.winehq.org
   500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
       release o=dl.winehq.org,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=winehq,c=main,b=amd64
       origin dl.winehq.org
   500 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jammy/contrib amd64 Packages
       release o=Oracle Corporation,n=jammy,l=Oracle Corporation,c=contrib,b=amd64
       origin download.virtualbox.org
   500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/chromium/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-savoury1-chromium,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Chromium - web browser (Xenial & newer),c=main,b=i386
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/savoury1/chromium/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-savoury1-chromium,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Chromium - web browser (Xenial & newer),c=main,b=amd64
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-mozillateam,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Firefox ESR and Thunderbird stable builds,c=main,b=i386
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=LP-PPA-mozillateam,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Firefox ESR and Thunderbird stable builds,c=main,b=amd64
       origin ppa.launchpadcontent.net
   100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-backports,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-backports,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-backports,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-backports,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-updates,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/multiverse i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/multiverse i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/multiverse amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/restricted i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/restricted amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main i386 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
   500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
       release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
       origin archive.ubuntu.com
  Pinned packages:

  Edit: Running apt-mark showhold returns no results

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: apt 2.4.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-48.54-generic 5.15.53
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-48-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Tue Sep 20 15:53:05 2022
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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