Re: Growing number of packages not being upgraded

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:22:37 -0500
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:

> On 10/12/13 11:10 AM, Reco wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Try it like this:

apt-get install libmateweather-common=1.6.2-1 libmatewnck-common=1.6.2-1

That should not upgrade these packages, but it should show why apt
refuses to do anything about them.

Reco