Apt vs deselect question

[RUSSELL COOK <russcook@icon.net>]

Hello All,
	I have a question regarding the use of apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my system current.  When I issue apt-get upgrade, I get a message that 90 packages were help back, and it fetches nothing.
	If I then dpkg -l (list) any of the held packages, then apt-get install that package (it will install if explicitly told to) then dpkg -l that package again, I can see that it has been upgraded to a higher version.
	Why is apt-get holding these packages, when newer versions exist?
When I issued apt-get install package-name, it told me that held package package-name versionxx.x is being replaced with package-namexx.y.
	Is this behaviour a consequence of also using apt with deselect?  Is the deselect selection criteria overriding the apt-get dist-upgrade function?
	My sources.list file reads:
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian hamm main contrib non-free
	I don't want to have to explicity tell deselect to upgrade every package - that's what I thought apt-get was best at.
	Please help.

	Thanks.
		Russ
russcook@icon.net


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