StartedBusterUpgrade

[Geoff Kaniuk <geoff@kaniuk.co.uk>]

Dear Release Notes,

I have started my upgrade to Buster, and I would like to ask your advice 
on the very large number of packages 'held-back'.  This was reported by 
apt-get upgrade:
752 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 697 not upgraded.

I felt that this was a very large number and so aborted the upgrade. I 
have reported details in the Debian forum:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=147098

There have been a number of replies on this topic including:
 'carry-on' , 'apt-get dist upgrade', 'fresh-install'.

My system is backed up every night and I act on package update messages 
from apticron daily, so I was not expecting a huge number of held-back 
packages.

Is the number I report expected?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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Geoff

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