upgrade solves other issues?

[Colin Law]

On 8 April 2014 11:51, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>...
> john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   binutils
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

How about
apt-cache policy binutils

Colin