Wednesdy, January 03, 2018. 04:50AM PST updates. Is this a problem?

Additional Information: There were 22 Upgrades along with this update. From what I could see of the Terminal Screen as the upgrades quickly scrolled by., these eight Upgrades were calling for functions which are 'No longer Supported', and were 'falling back to default'. -- Additional question: Do these Eight upgrades Need to be Updated by Canonical/Ubuntu Themselves, to reflect the Current Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in order to implement correctly?

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output of the following commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade

? Do I use 'Mesa Utilities' for Open GL rendering? I believe that I do. I use the Linux Native GZDoom Engine. As my Antique ATI 9600 PRO 8X AGP card is Open GL capable. Just NOT GL2 or GL3.

uname -a
Linux bear 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

$ apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libllvm4.0
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
  libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2 mesa-vdpau-drivers
8 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libdrm-common (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [all])
Inst libdrm2 [2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1] (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Inst libdrm-amdgpu1 [2.4.76-1~ubuntu16.04.1] (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Inst libwayland-egl1-mesa [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386]) []
Inst libegl1-mesa [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386]) []
Inst libgbm1 [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386]) []
Inst libgl1-mesa-dri [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Inst libxatracker2 [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Inst mesa-vdpau-drivers [17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.2] (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libdrm-common (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [all])
Conf libdrm2 (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libdrm-amdgpu1 (2.4.83-1~16.04.1 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libgbm1 (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libgl1-mesa-dri (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libegl1-mesa (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libwayland-egl1-mesa (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf libxatracker2 (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])
Conf mesa-vdpau-drivers (17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-updates [i386])

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Properly Filed as a separate Question:

I keep getting re-prompted by Software Updater to install the latest Ubuntu 16.04LTS update
if this ‘libllvm5.0’ which the update installs is autoremoved as prompted:
Get your updates/priorities Sorted--

$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libllvm5.0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

There is a slight difference between "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade", which is important in this case.

One of the upgraded packages apparently has a new dependency (libdrm-common).
"apt-get upgrade" does not automatically install additional packages, but "apt-get dist-upgrade" does.

I recommend that you execute

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

(This will also remove the unneeded libllvm package)

Thursday, January 04, 2018. 01:30AM PST. Just got another new update. Ubuntu Base, and, GZdoom, Several (4 or 5) WINE updates. (I currently use WINE primarily to run my Deep97 and DeepBSP Map Editor programs). This solved the MESA upgrade problems., and also when I ran 'sudo apt autoremove --purge' prompted that it would remove libllvm4.0 rather than libllvm5.0.

This Solved the Problem.

This is also why I generally file these reports as 'Ask a question' not knowing whether they are proper bugs, or something that the next update will solve.