On 21-Nov-2000 Casey Henderson wrote: > Hello, > Today I did an "apt-get -du dist-upgrade" on my woody box to get the > most recent upgrades, and it said "The following packages have been > kept back" and it spit out a big list of packages (mostly kde > packages). Why would these be kept back? How can I do a complete > upgrade of the system? I thought the whole point of a dist-upgrade was > to keep the system fully up to date. Thanks. >
packages are kept back when their depends can not be met. KDE currently depends on a version of qt that is not in the archives (packaging mistake).