Bug#25026: apt: Why do you list the packages you're _not_ doing anything to instead of the ones you are?
Package: apt
Version: 0.1.3
Priority: wishlist
This is awfully confusing, why do you list the packages being held back, rather
than listing the packages that you're upgrading? This means it's hard to judge
how many files remain or if you're accidentally upgrading something that must
not be.
I would suggest listing all the existing categoris as well as the packages
being upgraded, but providing a configurable maximum number of packages to
list. If more packages are being affected than that just print something like
100 packages being upgraded.
or
101 packages being held back.
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following packages will be REMOVED:
rgrep dpkg-http explorer-icons-ms vncserver autofs libwww-perl siag
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debian-keyring dh-make big-cursor
The following packages have been kept back
fetchmail gv xlib6 icewm bison gs-aladdin groff xbase libdb2
libstdc++2.8-dev swisswatch zlib1g-dev xlib6g-dev bsdutils libnet-perl
xfnt75 xfntbase lesstifg motifnls zlib1g xlib6g modutils ssmtp xnetload
dpkg-dev kernel-package setserial emacs19 xfntscl emacs19-el xfntpex
lesstif-bin wmaker gdb zenirc kbd data-dumper dict libpcre1 libdb2-dev dpkg
mtools xtoolwait cpio xacc debmake menu bc libjpegg6a
14 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 7 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
Need to get 1174k of archives. After unpacking 2842k will be freed.
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-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux portY25.lanzen.net 2.0.34 #1 Wed Apr 22 19:07:55 EDT 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
hi libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
hi libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian hamm main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian hamm main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/mirrors/debian-non-US hamm/binary-i386/
deb ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/mirrors/debian-non-US slink/binary-i386/
deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US hamm/binary-i386/
deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US slink/binary-i386/
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
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