Why have my Ubuntu 22.04 systems got different versions of some packages?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:05:13PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, dem 30.07.2022 um 15:50 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> > While investigating the recent "kept back" issue I have noticed that
> > one of my [x]ubuntu systems has got a newer/different version of some
> > packages than my other systems.
> 
> ...
> > ii  libnotify-bin                         0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1 
> ...
> > ii  libnotify-bin                             0.7.9-3ubuntu5
> 
> once again, "apt policy libnotify-bin" is your friend ... 
> 
> running it on both systems should reveal the difference (0.7.9-3ubuntu5
> was in the main archive at 22.04 release date ... 
> 0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1 is a typical version string for a package coming
> from the *-updates repo ...) 
> 
> a) there might (very likely) again be phasing involved 
> b) the second machine might not have the *-updates repo enabled
> 
> ... i think a) is more likely than b) and b) would be a bug in the
> update-manager code unless you explicitly disabled *-updates ...
> 
Well I can't see much difference:-

chris at esprimo$ apt policy libnotify-bin
libnotify-bin:
  Installed: 0.7.9-3ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.7.9-3ubuntu5
  Version table:
     0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1 1 (phased 70%)
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.7.9-3ubuntu5 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


chris at backup$ apt policy libnotify-bin
libnotify-bin:
  Installed: 0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1
  Candidate: 0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.9-3ubuntu5.22.04.1 500 (phased 70%)
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.7.9-3ubuntu5 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

-- 
Chris Green