Lately, I've been doing a 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' every day to check up on how far I've drifted from the current potato baseline. There has been a gradually increasing number of packages that are 'kept back'; currently I get:
Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back lesstif-bin mutt netatalk 67 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Is this normal? I don't have any packages deliberately put on hold in dselect. I am wondering if these packages are flagged as held back at the server or if there is some dependency problem on my end. If it is on my end, how can I find out exactly what the problems are? -- Mark Zimmerman
