apt-get upgrade (stable to testing) 151 packages held back

[Roger Chrisman <rogerhc@pacbell.net>]

Hi guys,

Is it *normal* for 151 packages to be held back 
and only 28 upgraded
when upgrading Woody[1] to Sarge?

I did[2],
	rhc:/etc/apt# vi sources.list
	rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
	rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get update

Did I do the upgrade incorrectly?

Thanks,

Roger
TEFLChina.org

[1]
Woody CD#1 bf24 + Net Install + Tasksel's Standard UNIX server.

[2]
my upgrade bash session:

	rhc:/etc/apt# vi sources.list
(edited out security source, and :%s/stable/testing/)

	rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Get:1 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main Packages [2757kB]
Get:2 http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages [6771B]
Get:3 http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release [88B]
Get:4 http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Sources [3123B]
Get:5 http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release [90B]
Get:6 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main Release [81B]
Get:7 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main Sources [1086kB]
Get:8 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main Release [83B]
Fetched 3853kB in 26s (147kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

	rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  apt apt-utils base-config base-passwd bash bc bin86 bind9-host binutils 
bison bsdgames bsdmainutils bsdutils console-tools cpio cpp
  cpp-2.95 cron dc debconf debianutils dhcp-client dnsutils dpkg e2fsprogs ed 
exim fdutils file fileutils findutils flex ftp ftpd g++
  g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 gdb gettext-base gnupg grep groff-base gzip hostname 
iamerican ibritish ifupdown info iptables ispell less libc6
  libc6-dev libcap1 libdb2 libdb3 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgdbmg1 libglib1.2 
libgtk1.2 libident libldap2 liblockfile1 liblwres1 libncurses5
  libnss-db libpam-modules libpam0g libpcre3 libpng2 libpopt0 libreadline4 
libsasl7 libssl0.9.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libwrap0 libxaw7
  lilo locales login logrotate lpr lynx mailx make man-db mawk modutils mount 
mpack mtools mtr mutt nano ncurses-bin net-tools netcat
  nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nvi passwd patch pciutils pdksh perl perl-base 
perl-modules pidentd portmap ppp pppoe pppoeconf procps
  psmisc python python-newt python2.1 rcs reportbug sed setserial shellutils 
slang1 ssh strace syslinux sysvinit talk talkd tar tasksel
  tcpd tcsh telnet telnetd texinfo textutils time traceroute util-linux 
vacation wenglish whiptail whois xfree86-common xlibs ytalk zlib1g
  zsh
28 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 151  not upgraded.
Need to get 16.5MB of archives. After unpacking 3551kB will be used.
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