For over a decade now, at least, users have continually been puzzled by this silent refusal. Again, in most contexts, that indicates a failure of the interface.
Viewed 1.1M times https://askubuntu.com/questions/601/the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-why-and-how-do-i-solve-it Viewed 62k times https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38837/what-does-the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-mean Viewed 87k times https://superuser.com/questions/1107334/apt-says-packages-have-been-kept-back-what-to-do/1108268 etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960727 Title: When apt holds back updates, it fails to inform the user of the reason To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1960727/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
