I just performed the test in comment #7, after renaming gnome- do.desktop (The file produced I've called Upgrade5, since I did some upgrades in between).
No upgrades were made this time - various upgrades were held back. The output file shows this. ** Attachment added: "apt-get upgrade output file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/730775/+attachment/1900535/+files/Upgrade5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730775 Title: update-manager fails due to held packages -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
