[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1064969: apt: can't upgrade with aptitude

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-02-28 15:56:56 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> aptitude is not our chosen tool for distribution upgrades, as such
> failures there are not release critical for the packages. So while
> this is release critical for aptitude, it's a wishlist bug for apt
> that probably would end up being closed.
> 
> I do believe the correct syntax for aptitude would be to use
> 
> aptitude upgrade apt
> 
> though

OK, though this is much slower. But still, apt is not upgraded
with this solution (and there is no way to choose another action
manually):

# aptitude upgrade apt
Resolving dependencies...
The following packages have been kept back:
  apt
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 182 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

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