I use the apt method in dselect. I have had the NMUs of several X packages (-8.1) on hold for a long time and after selecting install in dselect, it listed those five packages as having been held back.
After seeing the message this morning about a possible problem with locales 2.0.7-19981211-1 I also put libc6, locales, timezones, libc6-dev, glibc-doc, and libc6-dev on hold pending further information. However, apt still shows those same five X packages as being the only ones on hold: Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. Thanks. James
