Re: Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"

["Robert S" <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com>]

> This has worked for me
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69
Thanks for the speedy answer.  I see that sendmail is listed in the
security section.  All is still not right:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
<as recommended>

Now when I run it again:

~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 sendmail-bin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

~# apt-get install sendmail-bin -s
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 sendmail-bin: Depends: libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19.dfsg1) but
2.1.19-1.5sarge1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

What should I do next?  This is a work machine and I don't want to wreck it!!