What does this apt message mean?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:53:54PM -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> What does it mean that packages have been held back?
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-themes-standard
> gnome-themes-standard-data
>   libgail-3-0 libgcc1 libgfortran3 libgomp1 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin
>   libgtk-3-common libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libstdc++6
>   libswscale2 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 zenity zenity-common
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.

It means that those packages cannot be upgraded without installing new
packages or removing old ones.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/en/man8/apt-get.8.html

Marius Gedminas
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