Re: Growing number of packages not being upgraded

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 10/12/13 11:10 AM, Reco wrote:
>   Hi.
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:12:31 -0500
> Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > How can I find out what is holding these packages ?
>
> Have you tried to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
>
> Reco

Well that solves most of the problem...but 2 are still
being held

root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get dist-upgrade
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:
  libtiffxx0c2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  foomatic-filters libharfbuzz0a
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libamd2.3.1 libcamd2.3.1 libccolamd2.8.0 libcholmod2.1.2 libcolamd2.8.0
  libharfbuzz-gobject0 libharfbuzz0b libicu52 liblzma-dev libtiff5-dev 
libtiffxx5
  libumfpack5.6.2
The following packages have been kept back:
  libmateweather-common libmatewnck-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cups-filters gir1.2-pango-1.0 libcdr-0.0-0 libdee-1.0-4 libgegl-0.2-0 
libharfbuzz-dev
  libharfbuzz-icu0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libmspub-0.0-0
  libpango-1.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 
libpangoft2-1.0-0
  libpangoxft-1.0-0 libtiff4 libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
21 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 30.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Anyway to find out what's holding them ?

Thanks