Ubuntu 22.04 has an annoying apt bug. It does not properly upgrade all packages

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:42:11 +0200

Running apt in dist-upgrade mode generates weird results as some packages are not upgraded. The only solution is to manually add each not upgraded package to command line which is super annoying and wastes precious time :\ The following behavior is what reproduces faulty results:

juozas@xubuntu:~$ export LC_ALL=C
juozas@xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.15.0-46 linux-headers-5.15.0-46-generic linux-image-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-46-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-46-generic
  linux-tools-5.15.0-46 linux-tools-5.15.0-46-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages have been kept back:
  fonts-opensymbol libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core
  libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gtk2 libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-help-common libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress
  libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-l10n-lt libreoffice-math libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer
  libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 python3-uno uno-libs-private ure
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
juozas@xubuntu:~$

Edit: It appers this is a new apt feature called phased updates. It can be easily disabled by adding

APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";

to apt configuration (usually in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/).

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Ubuntu 22.04 has an annoying apt bug. It does not properly upgrade all packages