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Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"



On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:09:57AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 03:57, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The "not upgraded" isn't a total over all packages; it refers to
> > packages where apt knows about a newer version but isn't upgrading it
> > for other reasons. For example, I have kaffe on hold:
> > 
> >   The following packages have been kept back
> >     kaffe 
> >   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
> 
> OK.  Still, though, I'm pretty amazed that none of the ~850 woody
> packages I've installed have had any new releases in the past 10
> days.  Is all that on hold pending the 3.0 release?

The woody distribution has been frozen since 1 May. The only things
you'll see in it before (and after) release now are security updates,
and perhaps the odd other upgrade that the release manager considers
critical.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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