It's confusing but the first message shows you how many packages have a
newer candidate version and can be upgraded for no other reason which
maps directly to upgradable both --upgradable and ?upgradable, and
changing that to exclude phased updates would be a strange ABI break.
Note that people do use install ?upgradable to upgrade packages that are
phasing.

We don't have a good answer here, there is a wider conflict between
upgradable and will-be-upgraded, not just for phasing but also for
packages missing dependencies, or packages conflicting with installed
ones, and it's good to be aware that not all upgradable packages can or
will actually be upgraded.

All of these cases are more complex than the phased case, and we can't
handle them, so I'm wary of watering down the distinction we have now
for that one special case and potentially break people.

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  7 packages can be upgraded is printed, when they cannot

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