Package: apt Version: 1.1~exp2 Severity: normal Dear APT Developers,
it seems that -- despite the documentation suggests otherwise -- you now can pass package names as parameter to "apt-get upgrade" and it does what you expect: Try to upgrade only that package. But it also seems to set the given package to "manually installed" for which there is no reason at all: # apt-get upgrade zsh Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... zsh is already the newest version. zsh set to manually installed. <---------------- This shouldn't happen! The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: […] -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.15-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4 ii gnupg 1.4.18-2 ii libapt-pkg4.13 1.1~exp2 ii libc6 2.19-7 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-4 ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-4 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 1.0.6 ii aptitude 0.6.11-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.10 ii python-apt 0.9.3.8 ii synaptic 0.81.2 ii wajig 2.14 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
