For over a decade now, at least, users have continually been puzzled by
this silent refusal. Again, in most contexts, that indicates a failure
of the interface.
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Nearly anything would be better than the current state of silent
failure. At present, probably many thousands of Ubuntu systems are
reporting the following:
root@system:/home# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Marking as Opinion as David explained why that is not a thing we can
reasonably determine.
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Status: New => Opinion
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Can you provide a complete (preferably real) example of what output you
would expect?
Honestly, I don't see this working as in the general case the reason is
not simple – its at least my experience from staring at debug output for
hours to figure such things out in the development branches of a
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960727
Title:
When apt holds back updates, it fails to inform the user of the reason
To manage
