Is it something wrong in repositories ? [Solved]

[abhidesh128]

As most of the guys said here, waiting a few hours is the most probable solution. Sometimes repositories may take a while to get up to the mark. I had not faced such a situation before this issue, so I thought something went wrong...!

[asqwerth]

@Eadwine Rose
... In other words, are there possible unintended consequences? Sometimes a package is upgraded because the new specific version is a dependency of another package being upgraded. I see the possibility of cascading "dependency hell" as a result of over-management.

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Nah, this is not a rolling distro like your Gentoo . If the upgradable package you deselect in synaptic has other dependencies that are also upgradable, synaptic will give you a pop up to inform you, and ask if you wish to deselect those. As long as you say yes, the rest of the updates will go through fine with no dependency issues.

All it means is that after that update, your apt-notifier icon will still stay green, because there are still updates available.

And if you reopen synaptic some time later, the upgradeable section will still contain those packages you deselected.

(ADDED) of course this assumes you don't have other error messages about repo failures or sync errors, which might give your system a wrong picture of the upgradeable packages. Where such exist, wait a while for the repos to sync properly, before trying to upgrade.

But when everything is fine with the repos, one can always selectively upgrade packages in Debian stable.

[figueroa]

@asqwerth Thanks for filling in the rest of the story.