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kept back packages



Hello all,

I have a list of packages kept back (every time I issue an apt-get update this is recalled by apt-get).

I have used aptitude to try to understand why these are kept back. They're all related to
xfree 4.2.1.pre0 while I'm currently having a 4.1.0-17 runinng X environment.

How could I upgrade the conflicting/missing packages to have these 18 packages been upgraded ?

Thanks in advance

Here are some output :
JoeBar:/home/fat# uname -a
Linux JoeBar 2.2.20-pmac #1 Thu Mar 21 17:08:23 EST 2002 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux

JoeBar:/home/fat# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  lbxproxy libdps1 libxaw6 libxaw7 proxymngr xbase-clients xfs xfwp xlibmesa3
  xlibs xlibs-dev xnest xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xterm xutils xvfb 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18  not upgraded.
JoeBar:/home/fat# 

Then the list of kept back packages as represented by aptitude :
--\ Upgradable Packages                                                         
  --\ devel - Utilities and programs for software development
    --\ main - The main Debian archive
ih    xlibs-dev                                             4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
  --\ libs - Collections of software routines
    --\ main - The main Debian archive
ih    libdps1                                               4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    libxaw6                                               4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    libxaw7                                               4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xlibmesa3                                             4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xlibs                                                 4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
  --\ x11 - The X window system and related software
    --\ main - The main Debian archive
ih    lbxproxy                                              4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    proxymngr                                             4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xbase-clients                                         4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xfs                                                   4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xfwp                                                  4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xnest                                                 4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xprt                                                  4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xserver-common                                        4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xserver-xfree86                                       4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xterm                                                 4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xutils                                                4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
ih    xvfb                                                  4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre

An here an example for one package
ih  --\ xlibs-dev                                           4.1.0-17  4.2.1-0pre
  Description
xlibs-dev - X Window System client library development files
xlibs-dev provides static versions of the libraries provided in xlibs, as
well as several libraries that do not exist in shared object form for
various reasons (such as the fact that their APIs have not stabilized, or
that they are deprecated).  Header files and manual pages are also
provided.

The libraries available only in static form include:
 - libFS
 - libXau
 - libXdmcp
 - libXfont
 - libXfontcache
 - libXinerama
 - libXss
 - libXv
 - libXxf86dga
 - libXxf86misc
 - libXxf86rush
 - libXxf86vm
 - libfntstubs
 - liboldX
 - libxf86config
 - libxkbfile
 - libxkbui
  Priority: optional
  Section: devel
  Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
  Compressed size: 2984k
  Uncompressed size: 11.5M
  Source Package: xfree86
  --\ Depends
    --- xlibs (= 4.1.0-17)
    --- libc6-dev
  --\ Suggests    --- xlib6g-dev (< 4.0)
    --- xspecs
  --\ Conflicts
    --- xdevel
    --- xlib6g-dev (< 4.0)
    --- xlib6g-static
    --- xpm4g-dev
    --- xmanpages
    --- libxfont-xtt-dev
  --\ Replaces
    --- xbase (< 3.3.2.3a-2)
    --- xdevel
    --- xpm4g-dev
    --- xmanpages
    --- xlib6g-dev (< 4.0)
    --- xlib6g-static
    --- libxfont-xtt-dev
    --- xfs-xtt (< 1:1.3.0.1-15)
  --- Packages which depend on xlibs-dev
  --\ Versions
ph  4.2.1-0pre1v1
ih  4.1.0-17                



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