Comment 18 for bug 1400626

@17: I think that's understandable that not giving enough necessary packages may make apt do wrong decisions. The upgrade is very complex package dependency wise so apt needs to be given as much information as possible so that it's able to do the correct upgrade.

I experienced the same with 12.04 LTS point releases, for example I needed to add that "libglapi-mesa-lts-xxx" at some point or otherwise I also experienced apt doing misupgrades I think during 12.04.2 -> 12.04.3 HWE stack or so.

As upgrading HWE stack from command line is an advanced operation, I think the current situation seems good (and documentable, ie just use the command I gave for example) aside from the "Provides:" problem making some packages uninstallable after the upgrade.