On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. > > This morning, I got a mail from unattended-upgrades, which said: > > > Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: > > Debian stable: > > guile-2.2-libs w3m > > and > > Package guile-2.2-libs is kept back because a related package is kept back > > or due to local apt_preferences(5). > > Package w3m is kept back because a related package is kept back or due to > > local apt_preferences(5). > What does this mean? I have what I believe to be a clean install, I > have never used apt_preferences, and until now, I had never heard of > guile or w3m. And I don't quite understand why I have them installed at > all. My sources.list contains only bullseye and bullseye-backports. > > What do I do? > > apt list says: > > guile-2.2-libs/stable 2.2.7+1-6 amd64 [upgradable from: 2.2.4+1-2+deb10u1] > > guile-2.2-libs/now 2.2.4+1-2+deb10u1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: > > 2.2.7+1-6] > > > > w3m/stable 0.5.3+git20210102-6 amd64 [upgradable from: 0.5.3-37] > > w3m/now 0.5.3-37 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 0.5.3+git20210102-6]
I would install aptitude, and then run `aptitude safe-upgrade`. Aptitude's solver can usually determine the upgrade path that avoids breaking the machine. Jeff
