Why apt holds something back, was - Re: Learn from suse install to improve my Ubuntu install?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:09, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Scott Kitterman wrote:

> > Last time I had a problem (upgrading to KDE 3.5.4) things were pretty
> > verbose:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/55547
> >
> > I did install some extra apt utilities.  Here is what I currently have:
> >
> > apt  0.6.43.3ubuntu2  Advanced front-end for dpkg
> > apt-listbugs  0.0.49ubuntu1  Lists critical bugs before each apt installa
> > apt-listchanges  2.59-0.2ubuntu7   Display change history from .deb
> > archives apt-rdepends  1.3.0-1  Recursively lists package dependencies
> > apt-utils   0.6.43.3ubuntu2  APT utility programs
> >
> > Only apt and apt-utils are standard.
>
> The last time I had the problem, -V really didn't help.  It shoes the
> two versions, and the version numbers were different, of course, since
> the package would be upgraded.  Nothing meaningful is gleaned from
> version numbers.
>
> Do apt-listchanges and apt-rdepends change this behavior?

I don't recall actually.  If you look at the bug I referenced above, you can 
see how much detail I was getting.  Honestly, I don't recall as it's been a 
while since I installed everything.

Scott K