Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"
I have recently got the following output:
# apt-get upgrade -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
If I try to install one of these packages I get:
# apt-get install sendmail -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sendmail: Depends: sendmail-bin (= 8.13.4-3sarge2) but
8.13.4-3sarge1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
Also:
# apt-get install -s sendmail-bin
------8><------- snip
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sendmail-bin: Depends: libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19.dfsg1) but
2.1.19-1.5sarge1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main
I also use the volatile-sloppy repository for spamassassin and
volatile for clamav. Otherwise I run a pure sarge system. I've
disabled volatile-sloppy for the meantime because I don't want to
install the latest version of this until its fully tested. I can't
see any evidence that sendmail or sendmail-bin are in volatile or
sloppy.
Is the apt repository working OK?? How can I resolve this?
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