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 Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libnvidia-cfg1-470 libnvidia-compute-470 libnvidia-compute-470:i386 libnvidia-decode-470 libnvidia-decode-470:i386 libnvidia-encode-470 libnvidia-encode-470:i386 libnvidia-extra-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 libnvidia-gl-470 libnvidia-gl-470:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-470 libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.13.0-28-generic linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04 linux-objects-nvidia-470-5.13.0-28-generic linux-signatures-nvidia-5.13.0-28-generic nvidia-compute-utils-470 nvidia-driver-470 nvidia-kernel-common-470 nvidia-kernel-source-470 nvidia-utils-470 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. Providing not even a hint as to which of those packages is uninstallable, or why, would be unacceptable in most development contexts. In this case, with preceding versions of most or all of those packages already installed, it is far from clear to end-users why their system refuses to install official upgrades. Not many software tools respond to user instructions with a simple "No", and that's generally considered bad practice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960727 Title: When apt holds back updates, it fails to inform the user of the reason To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1960727/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
