I pinned the issue down (pun intended) and will leave it up to you to determine whether this is a bug or not.
After looking through the update-manager source, I discovered the markedKeep variable, and guess what: >>> apt.Cache()['fglrx-control'].markedKeep 1 It turned out that I pinned it to an older version in synaptic, and upgraded the package it with apt-get (which doesn't look at synaptics pinning). I don't think update-manager should complain in this situation though since the package is not upgradable. -- Bogus 'the following updates will be skipped' https://launchpad.net/bugs/55369 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs