[kwlug-disc] ubuntu: why do newer kernel packages sometimes get held back on upgrade?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  (normally, i'd ask this on the ubuntu users mailing list but i'm
getting kind of weirded out by how so many people there don't seem to
understand questions.)

  when i do a normal apt-get update/upgrade combo, why is it that
three kernel-related packages sometimes get held back?  as i read it,
i can, if i want, run:

  $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to pull them in.  is that the recommended way?  thanks.

rday

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