[Testing - Trixie] [solved] upgrade lists wall of packages

[layr]

Every now and then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade lists unusually large amount of packages to be upgraded:

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The following packages will be upgraded:
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757 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 271 MB/272 MB of archives.
After this operation, 8,889 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Ignoring the update and repeating update-upgrade later, the package list looks what I'd expect:

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The following packages will be upgraded:
  coinor-libcoinutils3v5 coinor-libosi1v5 git-extras libnfsidmap1 nfs-common signal-desktop slack-desktop ugrep usbutils
9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,876 kB/205 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2,484 kB disk space will be freed.

(gist containing both the huge list and later thinned down version here)

What's this about?

[fabien]

Ignoring the update and repeating update-upgrade later, the package list looks what I'd expect:

That's not how it happened. If you are not aware that the updates were actually done, then they were done behind your back (e.g. by unattended-upgrades or some other program). Check /var/log/apt/:

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$> less /var/log/apt/history.log
$> zless /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz

You should have used apt -sV full-upgrade so that the versions are displayed.

-V, --verbose-versions
Show full versions for upgraded and installed packages.

For an explanation of what happened, see [SID - Unstable] 750 packages +b1 ?