FWIW, for anyone who has a lot of packages pinned and does not want to go the apt pin priorities route, I made my own update notifier 4 years ago.
See: https://github.com/Botspot/update-buddy
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It specifically rules out any packages that are being held, thanks to this line of code:
See: https://github.com/Botspot/update-buddy
It specifically rules out any packages that are being held, thanks to this line of code:
Code:
LIST="$(apt list --upgradable 2>/dev/null | cut -d/ -f 1 | tail -n +2 | grep -vx "$(dpkg --get-selections | grep "\<hold$" | tr -d ' \t' | sed 's/hold//g' | sed -z 's/\n/\\|/g' | sed -z 's/\\|$/\n/g')")"Statistics: Posted by Botspot — Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:16 pm