'testing' & dep conflicts

[Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

Hello

I am running 'testing', upgraded from potato a few days ago.

Two questions:

1. Why are packages kept back like follows?

   $ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Packages
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/main Release
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/contrib Packages
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/contrib Release
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/non-free Packages
   Hit http://security.debian.org potato/updates/non-free Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Sources
   Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources
   Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Sources
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
   Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources
   Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Sources
   Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
   Reading Package Lists...
   Building Dependency Tree...
   Reading Package Lists...
   Building Dependency Tree...
   The following packages have been kept back
	 base-passwd bin86 bsdgames bsdutils cpp e2fsprogs ed fetchmail
	 fileutils findutils ftp g++ gcc libc6 libc6-dev libreadline4
	 libstdc++2.10-dev locales login mount ntop passwd patch pciutils
	 setserial telnet traceroute util-linux wget 
   The following packages will be upgraded
	 debianutils dialog gettext-base gnupg groff info libnewt0
	 libstdc++2.10 procmail whiptail 
   10 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
   Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
     debianutils: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-13 is to be
     installed
   E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!


2. Why is it that the above dependency conflict arouse?
   How can I fix this?


Cheers
Sven
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