Software updater ignoring packages?

[sktsee]

On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:53:05 +0300, Nick wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Today as usual the software updater informed me that some updates are
> available as usual.
> Out of curiosity once I updated and my system came back up I ran an
> update and I noticed that there were more updates specifically systemd,
> ubuntu-drivers, initramfs and others.
> Opening the software updater again reported that its already up to date,
> so I simply did a dist-upgrade from the command line. This is my apt
> history log:
> 

[snip] 

> As you can see the 2 updates were ran 20 minutes apart from each-other
> which means its almost impossible so many packages to be updated in such
> a short time,
> is the update manager ignoring some packages or is something else going
> on?
> 

Update-manager uses phased updates for non-security related package 
updates. You can read about them here

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/08/phased-updates-to-start-rolling-out-
for-ubuntu-13-04

and here in the comments of this bug report

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1320683

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sktsee