apt discrepancy?

[NoOp]

On 06/08/2011 06:38 PM, Mike McGinn wrote:
...
> I have seen this behavior on my 10.04 machines to. I cured by "rm  -f 
> /etc/motd.tail". This will force it to update next tie. I have seen two 
> different numbers for packages to be updated and security updates. It is 
> confusing until you figure out what is going on.
> 

Maybe related?
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/545398>
[lucid's motd text not updated]
Duplicate of:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/659738>
[Duplicate welcome message in motd (caused by postinst script creating
motd.tail file) ]