Re: Growing number of packages not being upgraded

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:20:01 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:

> Each upgrade it seems there are a growing number of packages
> being held back by apt-get.
> It started off as a few packages a few weeks ago and now is
> 23:
> 
> 
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>    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
>    libmateweather-common libmatewnck-common 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
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
> root@frank-debian:/home/frank#
> 
> 
> How can I find out what is holding these packages ?
> 
> Thanks

Don't know if this will answer your question... if you search for
a particular package on the Debian web site, then select "Developer
Information (PTS)" on the right side, there's generally information
on package status.

  HTH-
   Frank