[Freedombox-discuss] FOLLOWUP: the same 4 packages still kept back after latest automatic upgrade.

[A. F. Cano]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:58:48PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:00:02PM -0400, James Valleroy wrote:
> > On 4/14/20 4:25 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > > After one more cycle of automatic updates, the same packages have been
> > > kept back.  Looks like failing some policy change, it will remain this
> > > way.
> > 
> > Just curious, could you run "apt full-upgrade", and see what it intends to do?
> > (It will list any packages that it intends to remove, and prompt you before it continues.)
> 
> Ok.  Here goes:
> 
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>   libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libreadline7
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libmailutils5 python-django-common
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libmailutils6 linux-image-5.5.0-1-amd64
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   sshfs
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   apparmor freedombox freedombox-doc-en freedombox-doc-es gir1.2-freedesktop
>   gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gobject-introspection gtk-update-icon-cache
>   libapparmor1 libaudit1 libbrotli1 libclass-c3-xs-perl libgirepository-1.0-1
>   libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libnewt0.52 libpython3-stdlib
>   librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libseccomp2 libssh-4 linux-image-amd64
>   linux-libc-dev mailutils mailutils-common nano pci.ids ppp python3
>   python3-crypto python3-django python3-gi python3-lxml python3-markdown
>   python3-markupsafe python3-minimal python3-msgpack python3-psutil
>   python3-psycopg2 python3-pyrsistent python3-ruamel.yaml python3-twisted-bin
>   python3-yaml python3-zope.interface whiptail
> 47 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 4,816 kB/133 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 277 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> 
> Mmm...  I thought freedombox was just upgraded, but now it tells me that
> it's running 20.6 and there is a newer version available.

The latest automatic upgrade upgraded freedombox to 20.6.1 and the same
4 packages are being kept back:

2020-04-15 06:54:47,487 INFO Package mailutils is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to local apt_preferences(5).
2020-04-15 06:54:47,489 INFO Package mailutils-common is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to local apt_preferences(5).
2020-04-15 06:54:47,694 INFO Package python3-django is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to local apt_preferences(5).
2020-04-15 06:54:47,885 INFO Package sshfs is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to local apt_preferences(5).

The mysteries of apt...

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