Bug 395945

Summary: Discover displays and allows updating packages that apt says have been intentionally held back
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.12.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Packages held back marked as upgradeable

Description Nate Graham 2018-06-28 05:22:03 UTC
Created attachment 113616 [details]
Packages held back marked as upgradeable

See attached screenshot.

apt won't let me upgrade 100 packages, but Discover will; the held-back packages are presented normally, and clicking on the Update All button upgrades them, with unknown consequences (surely there was a reason why they were held back?).
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2018-06-28 11:36:17 UTC
Possibly a bug in PackageKit. Can you check with "pkcon update"?
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2018-07-18 16:55:51 UTC
If you can provide the information requested in comment #1, please add it.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2018-08-02 17:25:23 UTC
To further investigate this issue, KDE developers need the information requested in comment #1. If you can provide it, or need help with finding that information, please add a comment.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-08-03 13:58:09 UTC
In order to provide the information Aleix has requested, I need another batch of updates to come in that `apt` doesn't want to apply, so I can issue `pkcon update` to see if PackageKit ignores those restrictions, or if it's Discover that ignores PackageKit (much less likely, but still possible I guess).

No such problematic update has been offered, so I'm still waiting.
Comment 5 Aleix Pol 2018-10-11 16:23:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396288 ***