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Asked: 2016-11-24 03:55:58 +0800 CST

Why am I stuck at a version of a package?

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I wanted to update systemd on my 16.04. In order to access to upstream, I use Martin Pitt's PPA. The version there is 232+upstream20161120-0.master.

The version I have is 

root@srv /e/apt# apt-cache showpkg systemd
Package: systemd
Versions:
229-4ubuntu12 (/var/lib/apt/lists/fr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_xenial-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
(...)

Reverse Depends:
  libpam-systemd,systemd 229-4ubuntu10
  udev,systemd 224-2
(...)
Dependencies:
229-4ubuntu12 - libc6 (2 2.17) libgcrypt20 (2 1.6.1) (...)
Provides:
229-4ubuntu12 - systemd:i386 (= 229-4ubuntu12) systemd-services:i386 (= ) systemd-services (= )
229-4ubuntu10 - systemd:i386 (= 229-4ubuntu10) systemd-services:i386 (= ) systemd-services (= )
229-4ubuntu4 - systemd-services:i386 (= ) systemd:i386 (= 229-4ubuntu4) systemd-services (= )
Reverse Provides:
systemd:i386 229-4ubuntu10 (= 229-4ubuntu10)
systemd:i386 229-4ubuntu12 (= 229-4ubuntu12)
systemd:i386 229-4ubuntu4 (= 229-4ubuntu4)

It looks like the PPA is not taken into account even though it is in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and part of apt update:

root@srv /e/apt# apt update
Hit:1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [92.2 kB]
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pitti/systemd/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Fetched 187 kB in 0s (638 kB/s)

Candidates for upgrade:

root@srv /e/apt/# apt list --upgradable | grep systemd

libpam-systemd/xenial-updates 229-4ubuntu12 amd64 [upgradable from: 229-4ubuntu10]
libsystemd0/xenial-updates 229-4ubuntu12 amd64 [upgradable from: 229-4ubuntu10]
systemd/xenial-updates 229-4ubuntu12 amd64 [upgradable from: 229-4ubuntu10]
systemd-container/xenial-updates 229-4ubuntu12 amd64 [upgradable from: 229-4ubuntu10]
systemd-sysv/xenial-updates 229-4ubuntu12 amd64 [upgradable from: 229-4ubuntu10]

I also checked that it is not pinned somewhere, but /etc/apt/preferences.dis empty.

EDIT: info requested in comments:

root@srv ~# apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 229-4ubuntu10
  Candidate: 229-4ubuntu12
  Version table:
     229-4ubuntu12 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 229-4ubuntu10 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     229-4ubuntu4 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Why isn't the last version of the packaged suggested as an update?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you look at the PPA's published packages for Xenial there is no 232+upstream20161120-0.master package there. For Xenial the PPA has only the indicator-session package.

    It looks like232+upstream20161120-0.master is only available for Yakkety.

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